I got my butt whipped with a belt a few times as a kid. It was reserved for corporal punishment and usually when I had been corrected several times previously and still disobeyed or when I had done something dangerous/damaging, I deserved it when it happened, and I think I turned out alright. I disagree with anyone who believes that spanking a child isn't a viable correction tool. There are a lot of leaches on society out there who might have turned out better if they'd had a knot jerked in their asses when they were kids.
But I digress.
As it relates to the story at hand, I really can't help but think that someone just has it out for the whole SoG "family". Granted what Will Hayden is accused of, if guilty, is reprehensible and deserves the full punishment of the law (and then some) but what these two were accused of sounds like nothing more than a child getting disciplined.
Maybe I'm just becoming increasingly skeptical in my old age, but it sure seems that someone, somewhere, decided to put this family out of business and ruin them forever.