Sorry I missed this.
The reason government exists is to defend the populace and the borders, maintain the roads, put out the fires, fill the potholes, collect the trash, and then stay the hell out of whatever else it is that the citizens may want to do for fun or enterprise.
God! you people are incorrigible!
Yesterday a couple in Santa Clara were arrested by police and their bail was set at 3.5 million for torturing and abusing a 22 month old boy. The hild was taken to the hospital with 'extensive bruises and burns.'
From the sheriff's deputy:
"There were a lot of bruises in different stages of healing and also some burns on the child's body in different stages of healing," he said. "Some of the photos that I was able to look at with the investigation, they're horrible photos and it pains me that someone would do something like that to a child."
Based on your definition of why a government exists, this couple should be released and their child should be returned to them, because it's none of the government's damn business, right?