I listened with horror to the flat emotionless voice of Saiqa Akhtar from Irvine Texas as she told the 911 operator how she had probably killed 2 and 5 year old children. She explained to the woman that she had tried to get them to drink toilet cleaner, but they wouldn't, so she took a wire and wrapped it round their necks............ and the reason she committed this heinous crime? The children were autistic, and she didn't want autistic children, she wanted normal children.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?

On the 5PM show on the Paltalk News Network we looked at the issue of child abuse in our society.
There's nothing so grabs the attention of both listeners and viewers as an emotional account – and to be honest the account of how baby Brianna Lopez from New Mexico was systematically abused, beaten and bitten till that small frail life expired did just that. I make no apologies for creating the emotional response that happened. We NEED to be shocked, we need to be horrified, we need to be reviled by the abuse of children, whoever they are or wherever they are.
It would be nice and cosy to think that as society becomes more sophisticated, and our methods of tracking and monitoring these aberrations we would begin to see a decline in the incidence of child abuse, not so. However many people are employed to look after the safety of our children and young people, it's not working.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?

Kaira Ishaq died of an infection after being starved for months by her parents. This abhoration happened in 2009 in Birmingham England.

Photo courtesy of West Midlands Police/PA

WHAT ON EARTH IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?