She almost looks like she's about to strangle the baby. Or maybe she is trying to comfort her after punching her in the mouth for crying.
The original vulture and the little girl for reference (kevin Carter, 1993):
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Carter's suicide note: “I am depressed … without phone … money for rent … money for child support … money for debts … money!!! … I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain … of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners … I have gone to join Ken [recently deceased colleague Ken Oosterbroek] if I am that lucky.”
