Better or Worse? Depends on your perspective

The news on my niece gets better/worse. Better - Now that she's out of that house she has begun to put weight on. As I mentioned before, she had been losing weight since the spring. She's put on 3 pounds since just before Christmas. Better - She seems to be doing better, she's not out of control so much. Worse - we found out one of the things her father and his girlfriend were doing to her, aside from not feeding her much and beating her, was to, as punishment for some misbehavior, sit her in a tub of ice water for a few minutes, no wonder she went through a spell of screeching through her baths when at Mrs. Dave's parents.

Perhaps it's a term that is thrown around too easily today because of recent controversy, but people are using the term "torture" when referring to how she was treated. The social worker is hot on their asses to have them both arrested. Hang 'em high as far as I'm concerned. Mrs. Dave's parents are going to try to get custody, if for some reason, they can't, we'll certainly be next in line. I could go into a lot more detail, but it's too depressing. I just can't imagine, with all the people out there that want children but can't have them how someone fortunate enough to have one (on purpose anyway) could do this to a little girl.

Dave