When I was a kid, there used to be a poster in the Post Office asking for information about a boy found dead. His body was found in a card board box in a field in a run down area of the city. No one ever came forward to acknowledge any connection to the child. I can still close my eyes and see that boys picture. It was speculated that he might have been connected to some traveling circus or carnival because surely if he was local, someone would have missed him. That boy was about nine years old and malnourished.
I would like to think that is a special place in hell for those a-holes who abuse children (and animals).