So this is kind of a tragic story that I will nonetheless attempt to laugh at. A disabled pregnant gal was tortured and held captive in a basement, then beaten with things and getting acid thrown on her. Fun!

Banished to the basement, the 29-year-old mother with a childlike mind and another baby on the way had little more than a thin rug and a mattress to call her own on the chilly concrete floor.

Dorothy Dixon ate what she could forage from the refrigerator upstairs, where housemates used her for target practice with BBs, burned her with a glue gun and doused her with scalding liquid that peeled away her skin.

They torched what few clothes she had, so she walked around naked. They often pummeled her with an aluminum bat or metal handle.

Dixon — six months pregnant — died after weeks of abuse. Police have charged two adults, three teenagers and a 12-year-old boy with murder in the case that has repulsed many in this Mississippi River town.

“This is heartbreaking,” police Lt. David Hayes said. “It was almost as though they were making fun of the abuse they were administering. This woman was almost like living in a prison.”

Investigators put much of the blame on Michelle Riley, 35, who they said befriended Dixon but pocketed monthly Social Security checks she got because of her developmental delays.

Are you even remotely shocked that people that look like the above would be doing something like this? Like if you had asked me to draw a picture of what the type of person to do this would look like…well, it’d probably be a rudimentary stick figure with a Mexican mustache. But I’d have intended for it to look like those people above.

I guess though that if you’re going to take ownership of a developmentally disabled pregnant woman, this is kind of what you have to do. Like what other uses for her do you have? She can’t like, read you books or solve complex mathematical equations for you. Oh and forget having her file your taxes (unless you want to declare a cartoon drawing of a kitty mixed with seminal fluid as a dependent). So yeah, I guess it’s logical. Probably not very sporting, but logical.