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Serp, you left out the best part -- here's the whole lawyer quote from AP/Fox:

Attorney Steven Rosen called the plea a formality and later said there was no point in trying to challenge the surveillance videotape in court.

"We will probably enter a guilty plea and throw ourselves on the mercy of the court," Rosen said after the arraignment.

He added: "If a jury has to sit in judgment of this lady, the jury is going to come back with a guilty verdict ... I'm confronted with a videotape that shows Attila the Hun, no question about it."

And re the child having no injuries, so maybe it wasn't really that bad a beating, please keep in mind that there is NO reason to believe that the child turned over to authorities is the same child being beaten in the video. Please folks, these are professional scam artists, and very inbred ones at that. They had 8 days, during which the woman travelled through several states, to dump the beaten child and pick up and coach a substitute who could pass for the same child. Or maybe 8 days was long enough for the bruises to heal -- parents who do this sort of thing regularly, and are part of a community of scam artists, probably know how to deliver vicious beatings without leaving obvious marks (start by punching in the head, where hair tends to conceal bruises).