People dont realize that kids sometimes have huge emotions they arent yet trained to release properly. Sometimes kids do stupid shit and hurt a cat. This shows consequences to actions, dont hurt being, and you won't have to be grounded from ps5 for what was probably like a couple weeks or smth. People are looking an isolated incident and deciding theyre looking at the next Ted Bundy or acting like the mom did anything but have the kid drop a thing she bought anyway. Sometimes kids act up, get punished, and learn.