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Teen gets 4 years for setting dogs on fire in South Dallas
The Dallas Morning News ^ | October 16, 2009 | AVI SELK

Posted on 10/16/2009 10:57:52 AM PDT by Texican72

When a defense lawyer walked into a county courtroom Thursday and told Lefferreio Sudds' family that he would get four years in prison for setting two dogs on fire, the boy's mother thanked God. She had expected six or seven.

Entering the room a few minutes later, Sudds, 17, looked skinny in his baggy prison stripes. He nodded at his mother, shook his head, then turned to the judge and pleaded guilty.

Diane Sudds cried. Two months ago, her husband had been sent to prison for cruelty to dogs. Now her son.

It was a chilly Saturday night in April when two pit bull terriers bolted down a street in South Dallas, covered in flames. Witnesses said Sudds and another teen, Jucorey Davis, fled the scene when questioned. The boys were arrested a few weeks later.

"The dogs were in unimaginable pain," said animal rights activist Jonnie England, who photographed the animals just before they were euthanized. Part of one dog's face had been burned off

(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: animalcruelty
Sounds like a nice family...
1 posted on 10/16/2009 10:57:53 AM PDT by Texican72
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To: Dog; HairOfTheDog

wonder if he’ll have little monsters that will go postal


2 posted on 10/16/2009 11:00:52 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (ACORN: Absolute Criminal Organization of Reprobate Nuisances)
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To: Texican72

Meanwhile, folks keep excusing Vick for the same thing.


3 posted on 10/16/2009 11:03:04 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Blankety blankety blank)
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To: Texican72

Six or seven years would have been better to keep this scum away from the human race as long as possible.


4 posted on 10/16/2009 11:03:10 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Texican72

I can’t even BEGIN to tell you what I would like to do to this teen and jail is not one of the options. I’m sure Texans could come up with some good alternatives - one of which I believe involves a gravel road and some chain. Maybe even a gun or two.


5 posted on 10/16/2009 11:04:10 AM PDT by humble and shy (Taking our country back, one corrupt politician at a time)
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To: Texican72

Parts of this young man will feel like they are on fire in prison I’m betting...


6 posted on 10/16/2009 11:05:52 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: All

What the hell is wrong with kids today??? Absolutely void of any empathy or compassion. In Deerfield Beach the other day, kids set a 14 yr old boy on fire! Is something in the water? It’s shocking. There should be zero tolerance for any human being imposing any kind of suffering on anything!! I’m talking from gleefully crushing a mouse on video to setting humans on fire. EXECUTE THEM.


7 posted on 10/16/2009 11:06:49 AM PDT by Fawn
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To: Texican72

Diane Sudds cried. Two months ago, her husband had been sent to prison for cruelty to dogs. Now her son.

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>>>Heavy Sarc Tag ON

Really? How could this happen???


8 posted on 10/16/2009 11:06:56 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I am Legend)
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To: Texican72

People who kill humans have generally be very cruel to animals in their past. If you can do something vile to one living being, it makes it easier to do to humans.

Dogs are particularly a good marker because they are a higher level of being that say a frog or a rat or some other smaller animal. The writhing pain exhibited by a dog, comes closer to what a human would exhibit if harmed.

Look, I’m no psychologist, I’m just going by my gut reaction to what I have seen. IMO, this kid is a real threat to humans. Taking that into consideration, I would rather see him separated from the public for as long as is legally possible.

Four years, IS NOT long enough.

This kid WILL kill at least one human in the future.

That’s just my opinion. We shall see...


9 posted on 10/16/2009 11:10:23 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Deficit spending, trade deficits, unsecure mortages, worthless paper... ... not a problem. Oh yeah?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

.30 .30 Winchester, meet punk ass little kid that picks on dogs.


10 posted on 10/16/2009 11:11:12 AM PDT by atc23
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To: Fawn

M O R A L

R E L A T I V I S M


11 posted on 10/16/2009 11:11:35 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Deficit spending, trade deficits, unsecure mortages, worthless paper... ... not a problem. Oh yeah?)
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To: Texican72

Must be a mistake, only the Amish do such things.

12 posted on 10/16/2009 11:13:54 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Just watch Animal Cops on Animal Planet and note the types who are involved in 95% of the animal cruelty and animal abuse cases. Just thought you'd like to know.
13 posted on 10/16/2009 11:20:30 AM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough!)
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To: Texican72

After he gets out, probably much sooner than four years, what are the odds that he’ll do it again, but to a human being? Probably a schoolgirl.


14 posted on 10/16/2009 11:20:35 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Texican72

Those darned Amish, again.


15 posted on 10/16/2009 11:21:18 AM PDT by gigster
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To: Texican72

I mean honestly. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH EVERYONE!??


16 posted on 10/16/2009 11:21:27 AM PDT by americanophile (Sarcasm: satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim


Got a smile on my face
For the whole human race
Why, it's almost like being in cuffs
17 posted on 10/16/2009 11:23:58 AM PDT by Rastus
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To: Texican72

Note that this particular incident didn’t happen when Bush was in office.


18 posted on 10/16/2009 11:26:23 AM PDT by Sparko (Barack Hussein Obama: Mmm, mmm, mmm... Peace Prize. Now no one is equal to Me in My Sight.)
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To: DoughtyOne
"Look, I’m no psychologist, I’m just going by my gut reaction to what I have seen."

Don't feel bad. St. Francis of Assissi had yet to earn a psychology degree when he observed:

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."

19 posted on 10/16/2009 11:27:59 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Very well put.


20 posted on 10/16/2009 11:28:44 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I knew a man years ago who thought it was fun to catch mice, tie a firecracker around them, light it and let them loose. They blew up real well. He also killed chickens just for fun, till his parents made him clean up the mess.

He was white, so they ceme in all shades.


21 posted on 10/16/2009 11:30:34 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (You talkin' ta me? YOU TALKIN TO ME! Well just who are you talkin' to?)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Thanks for the mention. That was nice.

When I was about four years old, I remember that we had one of the kids from church over to our farm. I can still remember this kid’s name to this day. He was adopted. He proceeded to take a frog and mistreat it in front of the other kids. I wouldn’t participate in watching.

It was related to me that he took a nail and killed the frog, just for the fun of it. That seemed senseless to me at the time. It still does.

I’ve always wondered what ever happened to that kid.


22 posted on 10/16/2009 11:35:53 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Deficit spending, trade deficits, unsecure mortages, worthless paper... ... not a problem. Oh yeah?)
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To: atc23

You’re being too nice....Hang’ins too good for him, shoot’ins too good for him, he should be torn into little bitty pieces and buried alive!!!!!!!

Or a head shot from 25 ft away with a Desert Eagle .50 pistol would be just as good......

Get rid of this Spawn of the Devil. I’m surprised the Father isn’t already on death row....


23 posted on 10/16/2009 11:44:27 AM PDT by shredderman (Living in a Blue State, with a Blue Wife, But I'm Red to the bone.....)
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To: Texican72

Unless people like this get right with the Creator, they will pay a lot more severe price than 4 years in prison.


24 posted on 10/16/2009 11:45:12 AM PDT by Graybeard58 ( Selah.)
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To: Fawn
What the hell is wrong with kids today??? Absolutely void of any empathy or compassion. In Deerfield Beach the other day, kids set a 14 yr old boy on fire! Is something in the water?

Gross misuse of anti-depressants. Users don't feel depressed - or anything else.

On the street, anti-depressants are called "soul-suckers" (no joke).

25 posted on 10/16/2009 11:57:42 AM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: Texican72
Many abortion advocates are probably all pissy faced about this..
Murder babies but be nice to dogs and cats.. OK.. and Polar Bears..
People that believe nothing will fall for anything..
26 posted on 10/16/2009 12:05:59 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: Fawn

Fawn,
It most always is the upbringing. Real bad folks being parents or no parents at all.

Also, way cool photos of the albino deer, thanks


27 posted on 10/16/2009 12:09:38 PM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: Texican72

FUTURE OWNER OF THE ST.LOUIS RAMS


28 posted on 10/16/2009 12:19:48 PM PDT by Dryman ("FREE THE LONG FORM!")
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To: DoughtyOne

Hopefully, someone will crush his G-D skull in prison...


29 posted on 10/16/2009 12:39:10 PM PDT by Levante
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To: DoughtyOne

Hopefully, someone will crush his G-D skull in prison...


30 posted on 10/16/2009 12:39:53 PM PDT by Levante
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To: Levante

...or they could just set him on fire and whip out the marshmallows.


31 posted on 10/16/2009 12:47:09 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Deficit spending, trade deficits, unsecure mortages, worthless paper... ... not a problem. Oh yeah?)
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To: Fawn

i think we should ban fire.


32 posted on 10/16/2009 1:22:01 PM PDT by annelizly
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Is he an Eagles fan?


33 posted on 10/16/2009 1:40:56 PM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: DoughtyOne

From your mouth to God’s Ears.....

There is Evil that begs to be CRUSHED out....


34 posted on 10/16/2009 2:20:41 PM PDT by Levante
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To: Levante

What amazes me, is that I thought it pretty much was stomped out.

Hey, it’s out there and slime balls are still into it.

Judgment day can’t come soon enough for the lot of them IMO.

Thanks for the response.


35 posted on 10/16/2009 2:24:30 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Deficit spending, trade deficits, unsecure mortages, worthless paper... ... not a problem. Oh yeah?)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

I was going to ask if this kid runs a 4.3 forty, or can throw a football through a brick wall? If he can do either, he’s perfect NFL material.


36 posted on 10/16/2009 3:21:39 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: Tallguy

Word


37 posted on 10/16/2009 3:32:22 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Blankety blankety blank)
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To: Texican72

Sign that man to an NFL contract. NOW!


38 posted on 10/16/2009 4:02:09 PM PDT by packrat35 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.- M Thatcher)
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To: All

This guy belongs in a mental institution. Setting dogs on fire is a gateway violent crime that will inevitably lead to crueler violence against increasingly more evolutionized creatures. If it were up to me, I’d have him put to sleep.


39 posted on 10/16/2009 4:41:25 PM PDT by KarinG1 (Please excuse any grammatical errors, as I was slobbering mad when I posted this.)
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To: Joe Boucher

Just too depressing...


40 posted on 10/17/2009 7:01:23 PM PDT by Fawn
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To: DoughtyOne

Thank you, Doughty one!


41 posted on 10/18/2009 7:59:34 AM PDT by Levante
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To: Levante

;-)


42 posted on 10/18/2009 9:02:36 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Deficit spending, trade deficits, unsecure mortages, worthless paper... ... not a problem. Oh yeah?)
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