Shocking as the story may be for some readers, as you mentioned in one of the comments, reality outdoes fiction.
I actually thought they were going to dismember the child in their struggle/ressistace.
Just in the last month, here in venezuela, we have had news (at least one a day) of abandoned newborns, left to die. some of them have been discovered in time to safe them, but others have not been that lucky.
We have the organ markets taking advantage of people's personal dramas and economic restrains.
For every aspect of human morality or dignity there is a market that will not rest until people are dragged down to their doors and stripped of any trace of it.
I am not too sure all of the minds behind human corruption end up like Mason. My guess is, noup.