Humiliation is a permanant mental scar and it does exactly what it says on the bottle, it scars the child's mind permanantly ie NO recovery!!
He has learnt to never trust someone who has power over him again!
There is no going back on this one.
10 years time - Possible news headline - young man slays family!
If they do this to him in public and boast about it then what will they do in private?