SEATTLE—Urging parents to seek help from a mental health care provider if their child displays such behaviors, psychologists at the University of Washington warned Tuesday that adolescents who abuse animals often go on to become factory farm owners later in life. “When an adult owns a livestock production facility…
I’m not sure using lower case would make it any easier to parse. I think the issue is more how headlines use a little different grammar. In this case it’s just using “… sign child will become factor farm owner” instead of "is a sign that a child will become a factory farm owner "