Naomi - // I can't even imagine how one human being can do something like that to another. //
I have said on here many many times, that attempting to use rational intelligent thought and reasoning to understand base and inhuman behaviour is fruitless, and only makes you feel depressed.
There is no rational explanation, because it is not done from a position of intellect and reason, it is done from an animal savagery and a desire to hurt and to maim, without thought for the victim and the consequences.
I dread to think that anyone in the medical profession will seek 'reasons' when the perpetrator(s) is/are caught, but I suspect it will probably happen.
That does not mean that I don't wish to see a fair trial, and due legal process followed, but as a society, we must ensure that the creeping tendency for the 'rights' of the perpetrator to trump those of the victim, does not become the norm.