Maxton, his youthful hero, fought against shocking child mortality in Glasgow slums.
Each case an example of shocking child cruelty, which resulted in inquiries, reports and recommendations.
In the wake of the shocking child sex abuse scandal surrounding Penn State, in which former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually assaulting eight young boys, many questions have still gone unanswered.
In the midst of such shocking violence, children are in desperate need of protection, and interventions to keep them safe must be prioritised.
Still, when one considers those who are most likely to die from influenza, often with shocking swiftness — children, the elderly, cancer and H.I.V. patients, pregnant women — the weather this winter comes to seem like a very cheerful development indeed.
Since 1979 when gun death data were first collected by age, a shocking 119,079 children and teens have been killed by gun violence.
There are various crowd-pleasing moments in the final battle scenes (most of which are supplied by Neville Longbottom), and there are moments are shocking violence (children die onscreen, sometimes graphically).
A video or picture of maltreatment of animals could be quite shocking for children under 10.
I hope these shocking Connecticut child sacrifices in this holy season will force enough of us at last to stand up, speak out, and organize with urgency and persistence until the president, members of Congress, governors and state legislators put child safety ahead of political expediency.
"It is shocking that these children were subjected to such appalling sexual exploitation for so long," she said.
