Warning: if you have young children in the room — hey, they shouldn't be reading Scanner at all! Um, if you're a bad parent and have young children in the room, and they generally read Scanner, they shouldn't be reading this. But actually, if you have young children in the room who are reading this, we'll forgive you because you're not a bad parent compared to the mother in the Czech Republic who kept her young sons in a cage while family members skinned them and ate their raw flesh (and your kids should not have just read that).

Ms Mauerova, a member of the Grail Movement cult, caged [her son] Ondrej for months while relatives, also members of the cult, ate his raw flesh, a judge heard yesterday.

The court in Brno heard the family sexually abused the boys and made them cut themselves with knives.

The boys said they were kept in cages or handcuffed to tables and made to stand for days in their own urine.

The abuse was discovered when a man living nearby installed a TV monitor to keep watch on his newborn baby.

Instead of pictures of his newborn he was confronted by live images of Ondrej naked in the cellar — beaten and chained, The Sun
reported.

Sorry we made you read that. And we take back everything we ever said about anyone being a bad parent. Ever. This is by far one of the most terrible things we've ever heard of.

[News.au.com: Boy 'skinned, eaten by family']