Posted on 07/16/2002 3:21:27 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Man arrested for burning kitten on grill July 16, 2002 Posted: 4:03 PM EDT (2003 GMT)
A neighborhood friend of Sherry Scott holds the kitten they named 'Lucky,' in a recent handout photo.
LIBERTY, Missouri (AP) -- 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.
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Yep. Maybe a gang of bullies...I meant that I wouldn't take the bet because he probably HAS had other run-ins with the law. I'm getting tired, so I probably wrote it wrong.
Cares FOR, definitely. After all, they are our food.
Cares about? Yes, in that they are part of his creation.
To be honest though, I cannot presume to know the mind of God in all of this. I think the guys that did this have a problem, like when I shot a robin in the 5th grade. I felt horrible afterward exactly because it was senseless.
But I think you are reading too much into this verse. It is merely stating that God supplies all that his creation needs. It is stating nothing more than that.
Again it is to let us know that he will supply our needs and comfort us.
My main concern on this thread is that too many people want to put this thing at the level of doing the same thing to a human. This doesn't increase the value of the kittens life. Rather it de-values human life.
Well, fortunately, I'n not under oath.
Gotcha thinkin' though...
Just so you know you're not alone, I grew up on the farm. You express my sentiments exactly. Most of us are afraid to speak to such emotionally charged city folk about their pets. Good luck.
You write like someone with a seperate agenda or someone who is as disturbed as the sadistic perp.
You're right, of course. And it was an assumption on my part since it's not being his would be a major fact! And, if it wasn't his, my position changes quite a bit!
Yep. You got me thinking that you're psychotic.
No, I am saying that like a lot of things in life, it is wrong, but it is none of the governments business. The constitution and ALL of our founding fathers documents talk about the rights of MEN. Show me one word that deals with the LEGAL RIGHTS of animals. If the cat was not his, he has DAMAGED someone elses PROPERTY and that DOES fall under the governments jurisdiction!
It's quite black and white in my mind.
You know how Rob feels? As long as the perp is only torturing the neighbors' pets and not the neighbors, leave him alone?
I spent mot of my childhood on a farm - half a year each year until we moved up here and took up farming on our own. When I married, I married a dairy farmer. I have never tortured an animal in my life, I never came to believe animals have no feelings or memories because simple, empiracle evidence proves this untrue to anyone who REALLY grow up on a farm...which I seriously doubt either of you did.
Neither of you are right in the head.
No Rob, it goes way beyond that. Humans at least have the physical ability to somehow defend themselves against such assualt, as futile as it may be. Cats, dogs, kittens, etc. do not have that ability and are thus at the mercy of us humans. To not have remorse over the indiscriminate torture of such a helpless creature is a sad commentary of you as a member of the human race.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
If the grilling and torture of a kitten is 'moral' then I suppose your point of view is valid...if not moral...then anyone can reach the obvious counclusion about your opinion on this matter.
Not to mention declaring no empathetic feeling whatsoever to the PAIN that kitten felt, being slow roasted alive in a charcoal grill is a sad commentary of Rob as a human. What a relief that Rob SAYS he feels empathy toward humans...though personally, I find that hard to believe.
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