Category talk:Child abuse
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[edit] Isn't child torture and child sacrifice abuse??
In the article Child sacrifice in pre-Columbian cultures an editor removed yesterday this article from the category "child abuse" stating in edit summary: "that categroy [sic] comes off as unsupported bias".
In the same article you can read that, before killing the children, the Aztecs tortured them:
| “ | Tlaloc required the tears of the young so their tears would wet the earth. As a result, priests made children cry before the infanticidal ritual sacrifice, sometimes by tearing off their nails [my emphasis] | ” |
Is the said editor kidding?? I would like to know why human sacrifices are not listed in the category "child abuse". Keep in mind that, though uncommon, child sacrifices are still performed today, for example, a 2006 newspaper report states:
| “ | Police in Khurja say dozens of sacrifices have been made over the past six months. Last month, in a village near Barha, a woman hacked her neighbour's three-year-old to death after a tantrik promised unlimited riches. In another case, a couple desperate for a son had a six-year-old kidnapped and then, as the tantrik chanted mantras [were uttered], mutilated the child. The woman completed the ritual by washing in the child's blood. "It's because of blind superstitions and rampant illiteracy that this woman sacrificed this boy," said Khurja police officer Ak Singh. "It's happened before and will happen again but there is little we can do to stop it. In most situations it's an open and shut case. It isn't difficult to elicit confessions — normally the villagers or the families of the victims do that for us" […]. According to an unofficial tally by the local newspaper, there have been 28 human sacrifices in western Uttar Pradesh in the last four months. Four tantrik priests have been jailed and scores of others forced to flee.[1] | ” |
—Cesar Tort 13:16, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
