I'm helping my wife type child life histories for children about to be adopted from state custody.

Here's a quote from the medical records of a child who was at that time 17 weeks old:

"the infant presents with 27 deep burns approx. 1cm in diameter, most through dermal and adipose layers to the musculature..."

These are cigarette burns, friends. Or maybe small cigars. The dermal layer is the skin, and the adipose layer is the fat over the muscles, which in an infant may be half an inch deep or more.

And I had to stop typing because I cried, both in sorrow and anger. No, not anger, it was blind red rage, and my only consolation is that the troll is now in prison, and I know what happens to child molesters in prison. Still not enough, somehow...

Like to be sitting outside the prison gates with a good old electric branding iron and a generator when the troll gets out, but I'll likely be dead by that time...

Sorry to ruin your day.