Colorado School Aide Accused of Beating Autistic Children

Once again, the woman shown in this video is innocent of all charges until proven guilty in a court of law.  There is some possibility that what appears to be her pummeling a non-verbal special needs child is not exactly what it looks like. 

I truly struggle to remember that there's a human being under that fake hair, a little child who was clearly abused in some way and grew into a severely damaged adult who can pass for normal enough to clear a background check.

Now, why such a person would seek a job working with children who couldn't possibly report any injuries they might receive?  One could only speculate.  Maybe it's the same reason pedophiles traditionally sought roles as Catholic priests.

But really when I saw that video, and the photos of the injuries sustained by various children over the six months of this woman's employment -- which could be entirely coincidental because again she's innocent until proven guilty -- part of me truly wanted to beat her with a bat until she stopped moving.  I viscerally, deeply, wanted to violate and murder her in the worst possibly ways.  Her smug, shitty face in her mug shot.

And I don't approve of the death penalty under any circumstances, much less dishing it out myself.  So this was really challenging for me.  I had to work through my stuff to reclaim my recognition of this woman's humanity.  I really can't look at things about child abuse while the children are still children, before they've survived into adulthood.  Sometimes it just destabilizes me too much.