Sometimes people say really acute things here thta can get missed in the rush - and I think what MTed said here was one of those times:

I think that the wide spread anger and outrage at Ms Toogood is really outrage at being reminded that child abuse exists, and the efforts to portray her as a transient, petty criminal are really efforts to make abuse look like it only occurs in the margins of society.

A lot of people would really like to think that things like that only happen on the margins, and that it isn't "people just like us" who do it. The same way they'd sooner think the same about other types of violence and abuse that goes on in families.

But it's not true. Just because people don't go in for shopliftig or stuff like that doesn't make them any less likely to hit their children, and vice versa.