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Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402

• YeGoblynQueenne 2y ago
  Thanks. I was missing that from my bookmarks on SBS. Speaking of my SBS bookmarks, this is one of the latest: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/24/durham-woman-caned-son-3-murder-jailed-life-christina-robinson-dwelaniyah https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/24/durh... Christina Robinson (coincidence!) was found guilty of shaking her son to death and jailed for life. She admitted meting out corporal punishment, including caning and other instances of child abuse. It seems that after reading about a number of SBS cases my innate reflex of assuming that historic child abuse is evidence of murder has completely dissolved and I must look even at cases like this one with skepticism. What do you think? Edit: to be perfectly clear: I grew up with constant corporeal punishment by parents and teachers and I consider the practice abhorrent. But the same people who beat me up for misbehaving, horribly misguided though they were in thinking that's a way to raise a child, were not murderers and would never have gone as far as to cause life-threatening injury. I think this experience also colours my perception of cases like Christina Robinson. There's a sliding slope reasoning in many of those accusations that is very dangerous.