> The child has been abused.
Couldn’t be more obvious. Children learn primarily from imitating their parents.
Not true always....I remember being mistreated by so called “rich kids” who actually had decent parents. These kids were just spoiled and got away with a lot. The kid in this story may have parents who are overly permissive and don’t apply discipline. I guess that can be a kind of child abuse if one thinks about it since the child isn’t being trained to curb his or her own impulses that if it continues may lead to a life of imprisonment or early death.
And no one has called DSS or child welfare to report a child behaving this way? Obviously there is something wrong in the child’s life that needs investigating.