Shit like this is so heinous that there never really can be any “appropriate” punishment.

It's definitely one of them, that's for sure.
At least those kids survived.
There are myriad cases where children didn't.

@Beowulfsfriend The ones still in the system have been abused in some of their foster homes.
The older ones haven't been able to access many of the things they need. A lot of the resources they're supposed to have access to have been denied to them.

No, they aren't fetuses. However, they had NO idea how to navigate the world.
Even several years after their rescue, some of them are still struggling.

@KKGator My point was to say too many, especially evangelical repucks, don't care about people, children or not, unless they are a glob of cells. This whole country is a mess, living in a dying consumer economy while allowing the rich poor gap to widen. Spending too much on a bloated defense budget with the two longest unguarded borders in the world. Mostly, just being assholes and not caring about other humans.

@Beowulfsfriend Gotcha. I totally read that wrong. Sorry.