Yes, serial killers, violent rapists, and genocidal dictators all have lower priority than animal abusers.

that is utterly ridiculous. all beings are equally important. and anyone who hurts a being that cannot or cannot effectively defend itself deserves punishment. not just people who hurt animals. the elderly, sick, mentally disabled, physically disabled, children, animals etc. and even people who are adults and…

So if this woman had tried to burn 27 human babies, it wouldn't be as bad? Am I misinterpreting?

Sex crimes and child abuse are kept so quiet that potential protesters have a hard time knowing when and where. Though now that I think about it a second, EVERY sex crime and child abuse trial deserves protesters.

I sure as hell wouldn't want to help make a protest circus out of a rapist's trial because of the potential extra stress on the victim, and I'm guessing many others feel the same. (The dogs, cute as they are, really don't give a fuck if their abuser's face is plastered all over the papers because protesters have made…

Well, I'm hoping its because the cases you were working on weren't splashed all over Facebook - probably better for the victims that way? A bunch of riled up strangers shouting, carrying signs, etc. seems like it would be more stressful than helpful for any victims who had to go to court that day.

"I would hope the concern that's shown here could be shown for the homeless, the helpless, the hungry"

That's an excellent point. However, it's not a zero sum game for caring about child abuse vs. animal abuse. It's legitimate and important that people are upset about this case.

Or you can be like George, and prove your love by sitting on whatever I am using at the moment. Computer, iPad, cutting board, book, sink, he just wants to show he cares.

Why should she have to cover her baby's face during feeding?

She might have been covered or perhaps her baby doesn't like to nurse while covered.

Even when it comes to eating and drinking, you probably don't HAVE to be doing that when you are in a court room. Most of the things you list are caprices. Feeding a baby is imperative.

Except you are comparing judgement calls (wearing overly casually footgear in court) and caprices (chewing gum) to a child's biological need to be fed every few hours. If a mom wants to leave the house with an infant, she needs to nurse it in public. Plus, as someone else pointed out: her being in a separate area…

And the reason I ask is because I've never lived in the US but it's known for being a...litigious...culture. Also, family values blah blah. So I'm surprised that people even get away with this crap. I've told my husband that if anyone ever gives me trouble about it to immediately get out the video on his phone and…

THIS!!! Also this is why the current generation of mothers struggle so much with breastfeeding. No one knows how the fuck to do it because they've never seen it. Like really watched it. It's a visually learned skill FFS.

Yeah, that's a fine rule for an adult, but just tell a hungry baby that. They literally don't give a shit.

The difference is, ice cream is not critical to your baby's survival. Breastmilk is.

Breastfeeding is appropriate wherever bottle-feeding is. Full-stop. No one would bat an eye is she were using a bottle in the courtroom.

So how fucked are we as a culture if feeding our children the way we were biologically designed to makes people that fucking uncomfortable?

For fuck's sake in 2014. I just. Man if this had caught me before Woody Allen's laywer, Bill Cosby atrocities, the woman getting her hair cut off after being arrested for trying to report her rape and basically everything else that happened today I'd have more outrage. As it is I'm just going to sit here agape for a…