P.S. – McGrath says ,"...there can be more than one victim. In this case there are two. There's a mother who has snapped and done something stupid and wrong, and nobody is denying that. And there's a community of people who have been discriminated and persecuted in various ways over the centuries, and the mother belongs to that community..."

If you consider the mother to be one victim, and the community to be another, then there are three victims. Remember the child? If the community is a victim of discrimination, then the child as a member of that community is a victim twice over – of discrimination and of abuse by her mother. If the mother is a victim because she "snapped", then the child is a victim three times over – of discrimination, of abuse by her mother, and of the psychological trauma of living with a mother who is capable of "snapping" and may well have "snapped" again and again had she not been brought up short by the justice system. Whether Toogood is convicted of felony battery or not, IMO she shouldn't get any of her kids back until she can manage her anger.