Posted on 07/16/2002 1:05:09 PM PDT by 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.
Doesn't matter to God.
You got that right. Congratulations on winning the Sinkspur award. Hope you win many more. I'm with you.
Some of the local radio talk shows of course are discussing this... perhaps they could get some email letting this lady know she did the right thing and is supported.
Tom Becka on 980 KMBZ has a morning show before Rush - You can email Tom at tbecka@kmbz.com
George Woods morning show Email: gwoods@susqkc.com
and Dan Roberts afternoon show, droberts@susqkc.com are both on 710 KCMO
Not to mention protesting the use of unborn afghanistani goat pelts for fashion purposes (because an unborn goat has more of a right to life than an unborn human...)
There exists NO Hell Deep Enough for the psycopath who would so torture a sentient creature!
This Crime is equivalent to torturing a Human child--& worthy of a comparative punishment!
Sentient pets (Dogs, Cats, Parrots, etc) are willing Companions; they KNOWINGLY become members of Human families--they Return to us when we call them, they accept a role of "Family Member," they actively engage in the social & emotional life of the family!
The Torture of such a vulnerable creature is a moral abomination!
Whoever performs such a depraved act is a "subhuman;" "Human" in appearance only!"
I, for one FReeper, do not EVER WISH to be associated with such savages--even that they are also, genetically, "Human Beings;" they do NOT belong to ANY SPECIES I would care to represent!
The "Cat-burners" represent a subhuman group of psycopaths who DO NOT BELONG to the Human Species as I Know it!
Doc
Amusement? Let me at them. I will amuse them for hours.
Me, and a big stick.
She will make them beg to have me come back.
They wouldn't be able to beg.
That's just fine by me. I don't like cats so much, but this is sub-human, and deserves severe punishment.
There's a *group* of them, is what gets *me*.
The occasional animal-torturing sociopath is to be expected in "Modern Society" (all bow).
But a *group*? With no one among them trying to stop it?
Well... Since you've started it...
picture him, if you will, hanging upside down, naked, with a scrawny Charles Manson lookalike (me) standing next to him...
lighting an acetylene torch
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