You asked if there was any defense of the mother in your post.
You said, "Maybe her kid pushes all the right buttons and does it for fun. (no one here knows)."
That implies that the child could have been asking for the beating, which would then justify the beating. There's not a thing in the world that the child could have done that would have justified that.
There's a story here alright. Not about what this woman did or didn't do. There's a political story about what the government and the media can and will do to a person if given half a chance. It raises some interesting questions like why, how far can they go and who's next? And for what? But it's a whole lot easier to forget all that and let the media and the government dance you around like puppets. It's always fun to be part of something.
What Toogood did has no justification. Everyone was certain that the child was beaten to a pulp and they were screaming for the womans head on a pike. The media whipped that frenzy up and it now turns out that I was right. The video did not prove that she beat the child senseless. The prosecutor and now a doctor have confirmed that not to be the case.
You can "wash your hands of me", which in other words means "you are walking away from your own big talk" but you still haven't shown one post from ANYONE that defends Toogood or her actions. I am tired of people twisting my words. Put up or shut up!