#maltreatment__ill-treatment__illtreatment__ill-usage__illusage__abuse  cruel or inhumane treatment
  supertype:  mistreatment  the practice of treating (someone or something) badly; "he should be punished for his mistreatment of his mother"
  subtype:  child_abuse__childabuse  the physical or emotional or sexual mistreatment of children
  subtype:  child_neglect__childneglect  failure of caretakers to provide adequate emotional and physical care for a child
  subtype:  persecution  the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion)
     subtype:  subjugation__oppression  the act of subjugating by cruelty
     subtype:  pogrom  organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews)
     subtype:  torturing__torture  the act of torturing someone; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"
        subtype:  strappado  torture in which a person's hands and tied behind their back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists and that allowed to drop until their fall is checked by the rope
        subtype:  excruciation__crucifixion  the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering
        subtype:  dismemberment__taking_apart  the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces
  subtype:  inhuman_treatment__inhumantreatment__cruelty  a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering
     subtype:  impalement  the act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture
     subtype:  inhumanity__atrocity  a act of atrocious cruelty
        subtype:  brutality__barbarity__barbarism__savagery  a brutal barbarous savage act
        subtype:  outrage  a wantonly cruel act
        subtype:  enormity  an act of extreme wickedness

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