helpless

A mob forms to target an innocent and often helpless victim, and the members of the mob draw on each other's energy to justify their sadism and turn it into entertainment.

“If I were in their shoes, I'd feel very helpless, very disappointed. It's already taking away credibility that Australia used to hold,” Rishika says.

“As I approach the end of my life, I feel helpless,” he tells me.

Mr Bailey added the prosecution's case was that Mr Sidpara inflicted many or most of the injuries to Ms Riaz "while she was unconscious or helpless".

"A lot of people feel just totally helpless, like, what have we been doing? Why? Why can not even this galvanize change?"