European Witch Hunt - Witches Replace Jews

I must admit, I found this reading hard to follow and hard to get through.  I had difficulty following the author's train of though, and I would constantly get lost and have no idea what I had just read.  However, the one thing I did understand with complete (well, probably not complete, but pretty good) clarity was how the little boy was tortured so often.  It still disturbs me that humans can be so cruel as to torture a little boy, even though they did think he was party to horrific crimes, and then return him to his mother, only to torture him again.  To me, that is more awful than anything the family could have done.