The older I get, the more I realize how cruel the world can be.  When it involves helpless, innocent animals or children, I will never understand.  Outside of Philadelphia, police are investigating the brutal murder of a 3-year-old boy who reportedly was beaten to death after he refused to eat his breakfast.

According to WPVI-TV, "Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan announced the arrests of Gary Fellenbaum and Jillian Tait Thursday morning. He says Fellenbaum, his wife, and girlfriend, Tait, all lived in a trailer park on Hope Lane in West Caln Township."

Police say Fellenbaum, Tait, and another witness confessed that the little boy had been beaten with blunt and sharp objects, whipped, taped to a chair with electrical tape and beaten using homemade weapons, hung up by his feet and beaten, leading to his death.

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