Half a bottle does not taste good. I see your point with the toxins though. Still, come on. I may be mistaken, but didn't they do that to Ralphie in "A Christmas Story"?
Big difference: "A Christmas Story" is a movie.
I dunno, half a bottle of tabasco tastes pretty good to me. With tacos, maybe....
The fact that the parents took the kid to the hospital after she threw up makes me think they were feeling pretty guilty about putting soap in her mouth - if they were feeling guilty, then they KNEW it was something they shouldn't have done.
Anyway, parents do worse shit than this to kids all the time. I saw a man in the grocery store one punch his kid (who was probably 4 or 5) right in the head, call the kid a "stupid retard", and then told the kid to "stop whining" when he started crying.
It took everything in my power not to go grab that little boy and take him out of the store with me.