Perhaps most difficult to fathom is the notion that two young mothers could willingly choose to visit ill-treatment on their own children, in order to indulge their partner's sexual gratification.
As the chairwoman of the sick and shut-in committee of the Baptist Ministers Conferencee of Greater New York and Vicinity, she visits ill members of the 111-year-old fellowship, made up mostly of black clergy members and church elders from Harlem.
What about the role of young children visiting ill family members or other children?
Alex Ovechkin returned to the Capitals' lineup after missing two games to visit his ill grandfather in Russia.
Craig Langman, a father from Nuneaton, was threatened with a fine if he took his son out to visit his ill grandfather.
He flew to Lagos to visit his ill mother rather than turn up at Griffin Park and that prompted Nigeria's coach, Augustine Eguavoen, to say he would report player and club to Fifa.
The journey is her first in Europe since 1988, when she left her husband and two young sons in England to visit her ill mother in Burma and became the focal point for the nascent democracy movement.
During the 1930-31 West Indies visit, continued ill health and an accompanying dip in form meant he was dropped twice from the Test side by the end of the summer.
Nick Refuerzo, 27, from Fresno, California, who is studying for an MA, said he was unable to fly back to visit his ill grandmother and diabetic uncle for what he had been told could be their last Christmas.
Only because Chelsea lost was he even speaking to the media, having a flight to catch to Amsterdam to visit his ill father: "There are more important things in life".
On July 2 , 1881 after only four months in office, while on his way to visit his ill wife in Elberon, New Jersey, Garfield was shot in the back at the railroad station in Washington, D.C., by Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed office seeker with messianic visions.
