To the Editor:

A video surfaced on YouTube recently that showed shocking child abuse. In it, a young mother from Malaysia was pinching and beating with a pillow her tiny, crying baby who was barely old enough to crawl. As the child crawled toward her, she’d push it away and hit it with the pillow again. 

Internet reactions to this universally were of outrage. Bloggers found it very disturbing and told of how they’d like to do terrible things to the mother for revenge.