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[–] middle_path 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Wow, dude that's pretty awful. My mother is a part time forensic nurse (for rape victims), specializing in pediatrics. Unfortunately I've heard some pretty awful stories and 95% of the time it's someone close to the child and continuous.

My worst memory is more tame. I used to have a pet snake and I would feed it live rats. Ball pythons can be infamous for going on hunger strikes. So I'd buy a rat, she wouldn't eat, then I'd have to return it to the store. Unfortunately the store is about 20 minutes out of my way. So I put the rat in a small cramped cage with some water and food (crackers or something) and totally forgot about it as it was in another room.

I finally remembered I had the thing a week later. It had spilled the water and food, and been festering in wet shit the entire time. It looked dehydrated and emaciated. I felt so guilty, I tried to give it a bath in the sink. Me moving it must have hurt it as it let out an awful squeal. The sound still haunts me.

I put it outdoors and flipped a kiddy pool over it. Left more water and crackers. I was hoping it would eat or drink without me there or at least feed some hungry snake.

I flipped open the pool a few days later and found a pile of bones and fur. I never minded when the snake ate them, but this one's death weighs pretty heavily on me.