I appreciate cultures are different. My own is different. However, if you see a man hitting a child so hard, repeatedly, so that she cries out each time, he is dragging her along the street shouting obscenities, she is begging to be allowed to go to school and he's telling her she can't, and the hitting continues - I really don't care what 'culture' he thinks he is following. He is a child abuser and must be treated as so.