Would this be seen as Child Abuse?

A bit of background: The "child" in question isn't human. He's a program, created by mixing data from the mother and father. However, he is programmed to act like a child, but is smarter for his age and knows about evil and stuff.

The setting is in cyberspace, where there are programs that act like people. The villain's child is a Humongous Mecha-like program that attacks (and kills) innocents for fun and without remorse, even though he knows it's evil. This is due to his dad's upbringing ^note BTW, the mother has been locked up and isolated by the villain.

Of course, the hero will not stand for that kind of crap. Normally he Would Not Hurt A Child, but this Enfant Terrible is a borderline Complete Monster who kills innocents, so the hero finishes the villain's son off.

So you fight the villain's son in a boss battle. This involves hitting a few weak spots. Every time you kill a weakspot, the mecha will cry like a little kid in pain in order to "invoke sympathy".

• The mecha's arms, which he uses to shoot at buildings and at you.
  • "Daddy! Help! Somebody's cut off my arm!"
• The mecha's eyes, which he uses to laser random people and cars on the highway, as well as you.
  • "Daddy! Help! I can't see anymore! Aaah!"
• The mecha's heart, which is the real weakpoint after the arms and eyes are gone.
  • When you destroy that, you kill it in a Finishing Move where your character stabs a Laser Blade into the heart, then rips the mecha up from inside out.
  • "Daddy! I've been stabbed! I've been stabbed! He's tearing me apart! It hurts! AAAARRRRGGH!!!"
  • (After his son's death, the villain is very saddened and starts crying over his kid. And the hero then kills the villain for not bringing his son up properly.)

Basically, the enemy is supposed to sound and act like a kid, but it looks like a mecha (and is very evil). Would an interaction like this be counted as child abuse?

edited 4th Sep '13 7:26:23 AM by ironcommando

No

The important question isn't whether he acts like a child. It's does that society consider him a child?