Man kills 3-year-old boy for being a "sissy"!

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

And to keep this on topic, I'm pretty sure I heard a rumor that Eric Idle beat his children to death when one of them saw Dad cut himself on a broken glass and said "it's just a flesh wound." Query: was this violence caused by his horrible upbringing or was it a silent call for a more public discussion of the ravaging affects of alcoholism on today's youth?

And more importantly, is the violence excusable in a case like that?