Children abuse animals all the time. I remember how proud I was when I used my bow and arrow to decapitate a small snake. I was eleven. Then there was the time my best friend and I went frog hunting. My mother refused to make frogs’ legs, so we had to dump them back in the pond.
“I was eleven”
Bluegill + firecracker = when I was eleven.
“Children abuse animals all the time.” Children do sometimes abuse animals but I seriously doubt there are many of them and it certainly isn’t done “all the time”
In any case this idiot was not a child and the punishment I think is warranted is not meant for a child who is not yet old enough to understand what he is doing.