what a sad story!!

Ngatikaura, 3 years old boy, he was a happy boy, he was loved and cared by step parents, he was one of the lucky boy in New Zealand, I believed. He liked to sing and play like other children. Until November 2005, things in his life changed. That was before anti-smacking bill has launched. Since then, he had moved to live with his birth parents and after that 3 months he passed away. Who would believe that only took them 3 months to kill their own child? He was beaten and smacked with a vacuum pipe and a baseball bat. More than 50 bruces on his body, the nurse had to stop counting. Full story of Ngatikaura So sad ....to hear that birth parents treated their own child like an animal. I’m a mother of one and a half year old boy myself. I was so sad and depressed to hear this story was actually happening in New Zealand. I feel so happy that the government had set out the Anti-smacking bill , smacking children has become too far to control in New Zealand. We should have a better way to discipline our children, don't we? Anyone got some ideas about this?