What have we come to?

The mother's live-in boyfriend mutilates her three-year-old daughter by biting her lip so severely that it can never be properly fixed and by banging her about so hard that she may lose her hearing in one ear. What does the mother do? Cover for the evil - truly evil as he has bitten people before - bastard. Sometimes the death penalty is the right penalty.

Update
From a doctor who treated the child

Newton said the girl's face is permanently disfigured. "Basically, the middle of her upper lip is completely missing," Newton said. "She will never have a normal- appearing lip. There has been too much destruction."

The girl's ears were battered so frequently and with such force that the child now has the "cauliflower ears" of a boxer or a wrestler, she said.

"There is no way to repair the damage to the ears," she said. "Both ears were completely missing the normal anatomical structure."