Posted on 12/06/2008 9:05:36 PM PST by HollyButler
Two young boys have admitted to stoning and later killing a kitten in an east Mesa trailer park, and authorities are trying to determine what to do about the suspects.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose Animal Crimes Unit investigated the October incident, said the boys, 6- and 7-years-old, are too young to be charged with animal cruelty. Arizona state law prohibits charging anyone under the age of eight with a crime.
Arpaio said Child Protective Services declined involvement, saying the circumstances of the case were outside the department's criteria.
Nevertheless, CPS reversed course Friday afternoon and said it will look into the matter, saying it discovered a little-used provision in the laws stating that the department can investigate if a child under the age of eight commits a crime.
The investigation began when the sheriff's office received a call Oct. 23 from a neighbor who found the four-month-old kitten hanging by its neck from a tree in a trailer park in the 9000 block of Apache Trail in Mesa.
"I found it in the morning, me and the neighbor," said Anthony Yanez. "He wasn't bloody, he was just, you know, with his eyes shut….and we called the police."
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well they prolly did animal control a favor eliminating a stray!
> remaxagnt isn’t replying.
Now that’s a dam’n shame. I guess it’s one thing for Re/Max Agents to pick on kittens and a whole ‘nuther ball game for Re/Max Agents to pick on us. Shucks, and I was just about to have some more fun!
Hey Re/Max Agent: God created every living being, including kittens. He would not be pleased to have psycho little kids killing kittens wantonly. He would be most annoyed!
But little kids He can probably make allowances for because they may not know and better. You, however, do know better and are without excuse. How do you think God feels about your support for these evil kitten-killing brats?
IMO you tread on dangerous ground with the Almighty.
Exactly.
> comparing a human to stupid cat is funny!
Comparing a stupid cat to a Re/Max Agent is even funnier! One is a sentient intelligent being, and the other sell real estate!
Exactly. The article stated that the parents did not understand that the children needed help because of language and cultural differences. Ah, the old cultural equivocation meme. One culture is as good as another and one is not to be preferred over the other. Preferring one over the other would be discriminatory. I am not sure precisely what culture we are talking about in this case. I suppose the feral, kitten-killing, ignorant parent culture.
only good cat is a dead cat
> only good cat is a dead cat
The only good Re/Max agent is... waitaminit. There ain’t any.
What religious values could create such garbage?
Mexico is making Somalia look solid.
Kill the monsters now before they graduate to humans.
Considering your punctuation, that’s open for debate.
Hmm.. haven’t I seen you before?
The only good troll is a dead troll.
We had a kid in my high school who liked to torture and kill cats. He grew up to be a cop.
The signs of being a psychopath can appear that young. What they need to find out is that if, like the Columbine killers, we are looking at one psychopath and a normal kid along for the ride, two psychopaths, or if neither are psychopaths and something else is going on here.
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Lock them up and give them intense therapy. What they did is unthinkable. People who grow up to do this have no conscience and are a danger to society.
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