You've spectacularly missed the point. It's the passion that animal abuse seems to stir, as evident in this thread that doesn't seem to be present when child abuse is discussed.
Or we could talk about girls as young as five in Mauritania force-fed huge amounts of goat fat and camel milk and being forced to eat their vomit if they're sick. These girls are kept like veal calves as obesity is seen as desirable in a wife for that culture. The girls are then married off as...
I really wish the British would get as upset about child abuse as we do about animal abuse. Only last year, Bolivia reduced the legal age a child could work to 10. It's basically a sop to businesses that rely on child slavery. Where's the world-wide outrage?