Mo. Man Charged With Burning Kitten

Drudge | July 16 | AP

[SLB]

LIBERTY, Mo.- A man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly burning a kitten on a barbecue grill as several other people stood around and watched in amusement.

A witness pulled the scorched, 7-week-old tabby from the hot coals, but it was severely injured and had to be put to death, police said.

"They kept saying, `Meow, meow,' and they were poking at it with a stick," said Sherry Scott, who burned her hand grabbing the kitten.

Charles C. Benoit, 24, was charged with animal abuse, punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. He was jailed on $10,000 bail.

Jim Roberts, spokesman for the Clay County prosecutor's office, said he does not expect anyone else to be charged, because no witnesses could identify the others.

Scott said that on Friday night, she saw 10 or 12 people at the barbecue grill in the courtyard of the apartment complex where she lives. Scott said she asked what they were cooking, and they said it was a cat. She said the group taunted her, daring her to rescue the cat.

She said the group scattered when she threatened to call police. She said she pulled the kitten from where it had been shoved into the coals at the back of the grill. Its tail, whiskers, fur, eyes and throat were scorched.

"I called him Lucky because I thought I got him out of there just in time," she said.

Scott said she and other residents stayed up Friday night trying to nurse the kitten with an eye dropper of milk. But animal control officers decided that because of its respiratory injuries and inability to swallow food, it had to be destroyed.

"If you would have seen him, you would have cried," said Sheri Simpson, one of the residents who helped care for the kitten.

[SLB]

Maybe this guy would like me to hold his hand on the coals for maybe 15 ro 20 seconds.

[Dakmar]

Then it's my turn.

[Black Agnes]

Nah, his balls and weiner. --agnes the cruel to cat abusers

[AppyPappy]

Some people should be skinned alive.

[Black Agnes]

duplicate thread alert!

[sinkspur]

Wonder how this cretin is faring in the general population?

By the time he's gotten his comeuppance, he'll wished he'd made love to that cat.

[bulldawg]

What kind of sauce did they use?

[SLB]

duplicate thread alert!

What area was it posted to? I did a search before posting.

[Paul Atreides]

God forbid young people should be taught values in this day and age. When I hear of stories like this I think of all of this moral relativism p.c. crap that people are fed.

[baseballfanjm]

That is tasteless, no pun intended. Even cat haters can't make light of something like this.

[Black Agnes]

Nah, I don't think you were the duplicate. I think the Admin Moderator(s) sorted it out tho. This kind of article makes me want to go home and hug my cats bigtime!

[Freemyland]

What a di*kless wonder.

[ez2muz]

"...she saw 10 or 12 people at the barbecue grill in the courtyard of the apartment complex... the group taunted her, daring her to rescue the cat..."

Takes guts to step into a idiot-infested crowd.

She'll have a hard time getting the mental image out of her mind.

God love her.

[RoughDobermann]

What kind of sauce did they use?

Congratulations on being the first of what I know will be many crude, tasteless, revolting, juvenille, asinine, etc. comments. And I personally can't stand cats, but I know where to draw the line.

[baseballfanjm]

I posted the duplicate and it was pulled. I didn't see this one before I posted.

[Black Agnes]

No problem...saw both of them & figured they'd take care of it. Sometimes search is wacky too.

[SLB]

We have a bunch of stray cats that have adopted us. We feed and care for them. Same with the dogs that get dropped off in our drive. Great to see and hear from all the animal lovers on FR, even with a subject as sordid as this.

[Hobsonphile]

Nah, his balls and weiner.

Black Agnes, I completely agree! I've owned kitties all my life, and that mental image made me cry right here at work.

[baseballfanjm]

It's amazing the kind of human garbage you can find. 5 years in prison won't do anything to him. He'll get out after a few months anyway, if he gets any time at all, and do something worse.

[rintense]

These SICK SORRY %*#%*!%#^$$#!%@#$% should be given the same treatment!!!! If it were up to me, I'd take their %$^#$@%^ and barbeque it over an open flame, then pour Jack Daniels on it, followed by honey, and then turn the bees loose. Stupid, sick %#%&*@(! (^@#^&&!@*%!@#!^% !&*!#^%&!^#%!!*&%#^*!