• Battery appears to child to be in slow motion
• Beat unconscious
• Intention is to inflict the greatest pain
• Placed in barrel for beating***
• Use of restraints to keep child sitting or standing upright
• Use of restraints to keep child from running  Beat senseless
• Beat while unconscious
• Child passively absorbs the punishment
• Positioned so when unconscious child can still be beat
• Use of closed fists
• Use of object or lethal weapon
• Child will lapse into apathetic state

***Barrel for beating from "Eva" a book of poems by Linda McCarriston

Child Sexual Trauma                             

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