# What makes someone do such things? \*Warning Abuse\* **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 12, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-someone-do-such-things-warning-abuse/228852 "2004-02-12T15:34:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aries28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Aries28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aries28)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-someone-do-such-things-warning-abuse/228852/1 "2004-02-12T15:34:02Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/02/11/child.cellar.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/02/11/child.cellar.ap/index.html) What makes someone do this to a child or to any other human being? What is wrong with people? Somebody please explain to me why someone would adopt a child only to treat her like this. God, I hate people sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![county](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@county](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/county)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-someone-do-such-things-warning-abuse/228852/2 "2004-02-12T15:40:46Z")
So very sad. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-someone-do-such-things-warning-abuse/228852/3 "2004-02-12T15:45:06Z")
Eye for a fucking eye. That’s all I have to say. ---
**Author:** ![Aries28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Aries28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aries28)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-someone-do-such-things-warning-abuse/228852/4 "2004-02-12T15:50:40Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > Eye for a fucking eye. > > That’s all I have to say. You know I have truly rethought my position on the death penalty over the last year or so and started leaning more towards opposing it. But damn…it’s cases like this that I have bloodlust. I want to see the woman suffer like that child did. It is also cases like this that fervently make me hope my belief in hell is true and she will go there. I know that makes me a horrible, evil person but I’m sick of hearing about stories like this involving kids and the horrific things adults do to them. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-someone-do-such-things-warning-abuse/228852/5 "2004-02-12T15:55:27Z")
I also have been rethinking my stance on the death penalty recently, and like you **Aries** I think I now oppose it (although some people who receive it will not have any tears shed by me for them). Still, I’d like to see this woman get a life sentence, immediately after they do to her everything she did to that poor girl. The bleach, the burning, the whole nine yards. Maybe that makes me an evil asshole. I don’t care. You abuse a child, you deserve the harshest punishment we can come up with. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-someone-do-such-things-warning-abuse/228852/6 "2004-02-12T16:35:56Z")
I’m from Pittsburgh originally, and keep up on the local news there. This woman is a real piece of work. When her hearing was over she asked the judge if she could go home now. Apparantly, she hadn’t been paying attention to the proceedings. He told her “Ma’am, the bail has been set at a million dollars, and release won’t be granted until you pass a psychological evaluation.” Sheesh. Hope she keeps a low profile at jail. I’ve heard what woman inmates do to child abusers. ---
**Author:** ![Aries28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Aries28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aries28)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-someone-do-such-things-warning-abuse/228852/7 "2004-02-12T16:48:48Z")
> [@Mr. Moto](#): > > When her hearing was over she asked the judge if she could go home now. Apparantly, she hadn’t been paying attention to the proceedings. Which makes me wonder is she going for the insanity route? If she is nuts then how was she allowed to adopt the child in the first place? ---
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-someone-do-such-things-warning-abuse/228852/8 "2004-02-12T17:15:07Z")
Its absolutley astonishing what some people are capable of isn’t it? I saw David Pelzer on British TV the other day (victim of extreme child abuse and author of '_A Child Called It_ and other books) and was heartened at how he had recovered from his ordeal but for every success like him there has to be a hundred abused children that go on hurting for the rest of their lives. I hope that poor girl isn’t destroyed by this. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-someone-do-such-things-warning-abuse/228852/9 "2004-02-12T18:16:54Z")
That women is evil. _Why_ would someone want to do this to a child, and _how_ could they bring themselves to do it?!