I read the article also - apparently the mother had kept a miscarried fetus in a jar. Um..okay. I don't even want to know why.
Oh, but of course Moo and step-Duh weren't doing anything wrong. Duh was disciplining the girl because she misbehaves so much. She steals formula from her younger siblings and hits them with sticks...her parents routinely hitting her could not have possibly given her the impression that hitting others is acceptable. Hell no. Also, since when is drowning your child in a tub of cold water abusive? And smacking the child's head off the faucet? That's not abuse - that's just discipline, right?
It's sad how breeders are divided like this - most of them don't discipline their kids at all and let them run rampant like cats on crack, while the remaining percentage will severely beat their children, in many instances to the point of death.