8-year-old son recently told me he didn’t want to go to his cousins’ house. They are 11 and 12. He said they tickle-tortured him. They told him to lie down to do a trick, then one girl lifted up his ...

Elliott Kozel takes out his phone to show me a photo of where he’s been whipped. The patch of inflammation covering his upper back is punctuated by a half dozen red welts lying horizontal between his ...