Posted on 01/30/2005 5:07:25 PM PST by KidGlock
Boy Who Cooked Animals At School Will Not Be Charged
Teen Cooked Guinea Pig, Rabbit During Class
UPDATED: 2:39 PM EST January 28, 2005
THOMPSON, Ohio -- Police and humane society officials decided not to file charges against a 16-year-old student who skinned and cooked a Guinea pig and a rabbit during a living skills class.
They said Thursday it would have been hard to prove the killings were unnecessary because students did eat some of the meat, and investigators didn't find evidence the animals suffered needlessly.
Authorities said the student killed the rabbit with a bow-and-arrow and used a knife to kill the Guinea pig at home before cooking them in class at Ledgemont High School on Jan. 19.
"From a standpoint of being able to prosecute, we could not find evidence to pursue a cruelty charge," said Sharon Harvey, executive director of the Geauga Humane Society. "Do we disapprove of what happened? Absolutely. But, sadly, what happened is not illegal."
Beto Gage, principal of the school about 35 miles northeast of Cleveland, said living skills teacher Diana Stevens lets students prepare meals once a quarter.
The student had asked Stevens if he could catch and cook a wild rabbit and she approved, provided he gut the carcass before class, Gage said.
Students who didn't want to watch were allowed to leave the room.
The boy, whose name hasn't been released, bought the animals at a pet store. He told school officials he bought the animals because he wasn't able to catch a wild rabbit during a hunt.
Give him ten years and he will graduate from animals to humans. Sick, sick, sick.
This strikes me as a little bizarre. Johnny has such bad luck with his pets.
where's martha stewart when you need her?
Are you a Vegan?
One man's pet is another man's, er boy's, food.
Yep, as do all butchers. You know, the guys that kill and cut up all that meat we eat everyday. "Have it your way" and all that.
Every hunter becomes a serial killer?
I have killed and eaten birds, rabbits, squirrels, and untold number of fish.
My hat is off to the boy! Unless the animals he killed and ate were his little sister's. Then, like me - he needs a good paddling!!!
Don't get me started on my dead cat stories.
We've gone through about 15 in the last eight years.
All accidents... at least most of them.
Lots of kids are taught to skin rabbits for food. I don't see the problem here except that he wasn't honest about where he got the rabbit.
She's in jail.
yum...roast cuye.
In the Andes of COlombia and Peru, they raise guinea pigs as a source of protein. My adopted son says that when he was a little boy, he would sleep in the warm kitchen, and loved to hear them murmuring at night.
When his mom thought the kids looked pale and needed meat, she'd kill a couple and make stew.
We think it's disgusting to eat them, but then my son called shrimp "worms" and it took awhile before he'd eat any...
so, sorry!
yeah, that's the woman that received trading instructions on her jet plane as it landed in texas to take on fuel before vacationing in ol' mechico.
then she whined that she was mis-treated.
and then usa today's feminists argued that she was mis-treated.
and then usa today's feminists said she should be helpin' po' folks cook and not go to jail.
keep in mind that she was a stock trader earlier in her career and knew damn well what she was doing.
Yes, she knew. Her only mistake was that she lied to the SEC. She never should have talked to them. Too arrogant for her own good.
No, don't get me wrong, I love meat. My father-in-law is a trapper in Arizona, I have not problem with eating meat. My point is that "little Johnny" went to a pet store. These were not wild animals. He couldn't hunt for them so I just think he is sick to go to a pet store. What if he bought a dog at that pet store an killed and skinned it? I lived in Korea for 3 years and rescued a cute poodle from such a fate.
Should that be: Ms-treated?
very good!
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