Posted on 03/22/2002 9:49:10 AM PST by areafiftyone
White Plains, New York-AP) -- A former prison guard who killed five kittens in a trash compactor at Sing Sing has been sentenced to a year in jail. A judge said the crime was ``so offensive and so calculated and so gratuitously cruel it diminishes the humanity of everybody.''
Forty-eight-year-old Ronald Hunlock had been convicted of aggravated cruelty to animals. Last March he found an inmate with contraband at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining. He then searched the inmate's cell, found five newborn kittens and their mother and told the inmate to put them in the compactor. The inmate refused, so Hunlock did it himself.
The mother cat escaped but the kittens were crushed. Defense attorney Daniel Gallivan had asked the judge not to impose jail time, and said Hunlock thought the cats were ill and had no other recourse.
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Do you know who said that?
I wish there had been something like that in the bible. The only reference in scripture I can think of was rescuing an ox in a ditch on Sunday (and that seemed more because the animal was a valuable working animal) and in the OT about not cutting their hindlegs, or muzzling an ox from eating while it was working a wheel.
God gave some animals to be sacrificed for our dietary benefit. We don't crush cows to death. Crushing cats is useless torture. Out society is smart enough to know the difference between slaughtering a cow, killing rats, and torturing cats.
Maybe God make a mistake and should have consulted you beforehand.
That is shocking. My agnostic father beat my b*** for stomping on a can of worms I had collected. The priest told me that wasn't a sin but I am still saddened by my behavior. I would never do that again.
Why is it that in Catholic countries, animals are so cruelly treated? I heard of some instances in Spain where the priest was on hand while they dropped some animal from a high place for sport during some festivities. Also I saw a movie where they hanged a goose upside down and men on horses whizzed by and tried to cut off its head.
If I had to witness something like that it would make me ill and I would have to get out of there.
How about we change the parameters a bit so it is in line with the case that we are discussing. Let's see how your story looks with a little tweeking, shall we:
The neighbors children, whom my mother was babysitting, played with the kittens they were taking care of in the barn. My mother got a shovel, went over to the cats and bashed all their heads in and then buried them. Now, I suppose you will tell me that she should have gone to jail for her actions.
If that were the case, yes. The kittens were not causing a health risk like the kittens in your mother's story. The prisoner was a ward of the State, not the guard, unlike the children in your mother's story. The guard killed the kittens because it would hurt the prisoner, not to protect him like your mother did.
Justice is the appropriate reward for action. In this case, the guard chose to act in a cruel and destructive manner with great malice and calleousness. A one year prison sentence is a just reward.
Andrea Yates got life in prison for killing her 5 children, so the arguement that we view animal life as more important than human life doesn't wash. (With the exception of abortion, which will be judged justly one day if we perservere and keep focus on that horrible slaughter.)
I can't find it but I was sure it was in there somewhere.
Realistically he behaved more like an animal than a human and I think he got off light. I'm ashamed that I share humanity with such people.
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I wish there had been something like that in the bible.
Just kidding.
Good.
What is being said, however, is that by thinking this is a horrible action we somehow miss how horrible abortion is. We don't! We think this is horrible and abortion is even worse. No one has said the contrary and no one has said that abortion isn't worse.
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