That is what I meant, Penance. A child brought into the E.R. at 18 months with a skull fracture and cigarette burns on his/her body... should be removed for the child’s safety until the investigation is done. Now, if something odd occurred (a babysitter, a visiting relative) then fine. BUT, if the so called parent did this... the child should be removed permanently. Just because you give birth to a child doesn’t give you the God given right to beat the crap out of him or kill them. I think we’re agreeing here.
Not really. We're agreeing upon the end result regarding the child; but, I'm not sure we're agreeing on how we get to that result.
To see if we're agreeing on the path (in addition to the destination) I would ask this:
When you said that "the child should be removed ... until the investigation is done", who should remove the child, and who should do the investigating?