Had to write this as a part of the series after the way Horatio dealt with that horrible excuse for a mother during Hostile Takeover. He was great!
Sorry it's super short!
Never
Hurting a child was never excusable to Horatio Caine, no matter what the alleged reason. His blood boiled listening to a mother trying to justify breaking her son's arm and forcing to the boy to blame it on her ex-husband, the boy's father so she could gain sole custody of the child and prevent the father from having any access to the boy.
"There's no excuse for what you did," Horatio told her. "None."
As disgusting as it was for a divorced couple to use their innocent children as pawns to hurt each other, to sink to this level was almost beyond belief. After all his years on the force, this time wasn't the first time the lieutenant had seen this horrible occurrence but time he had felt just as sick.
Glancing at the photos of his children that were on his desk, Horatio sighed and thought the seventeen minute drive home to his family was going to feel very long this evening.