Man Arrested For Burning Kitten on Grill

AP/CNN | 7-16-02 | my favorite headache

[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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[Terriergal]

Are you too lazy to do your own research?

On.....?

[Terriergal]

oops forgot to include you - #720 and #721

[Terriergal]

If it were easy to change one's heart, I would tend to agree. What matters is the condition of one's eternal soul at the moment of death. If one truly repents just before death, then yes, salvation will be granted. But if one goes through life thinking he can cheat grace, their conscience will be seared and at that last moment, if they are even granted warning, they will not be able to repent, because it will be disingenuous. God knows the difference.

[Terriergal]

Hebrews 10:26, 27

"If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left,but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God."

Romans 6:1,2"What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?"

those that acknowledge the truth by saying "I'll repent at the last minute" are doing exactly what is said in the Hebrews verse. The Bible, if you pay attention to all of it, covers most people's uresearched objections to it.

[Terriergal]

"Other faiths. If I waited until I came across someone who knew something it would take a long time to discover anything... "

We weren't talking about "other faiths." Yes I have researched them. Nice dodge. We were trying to research YOURS. Remember?

[Terriergal]

Deathbed changes of heart...just don't have the same conviction as a lifetime of actions and deeds.

You are absolutely right, but they are just as valuable to the invidual in question. The person who converts on his deathbed usually laments his wasted life. That is true at any conversion, actually.

there are plenty of lifetime actions of good deeds too, if that is your main objection. Look at Mother Teresa, for an extreme example.

[Terriergal]

there are plenty of lifetime actions of good deeds too

Plenty of examples of lifetimes of good deeds. sorry.

[Bandolier]

People stood around and watched this???
And didn't kick his ass, and save the animal?!?!!
Sometimes I think I underestimate how sick our society has become.
This boy was a definite candidate for Fist Eating 101.
How in the hell could presumably grown men stand around and watch this sick shit happening, and not knock some head?
My god, we are in touble.

[Terriergal]

My goodness, your cleverness and wit strike again. Where would the world be without your precious insights?

Oh yes, did you mean that too?

Thank you, I will take that as a compliment, since you are always so crystal clear in your writing.

Nice dodge, again. Notice how you're not answering the question. How can you make the assertion that human writing is always fallible and then say that you are an objective judge of writing... that your writing is so clear that no one should ever have to ask you what you meant by it?

[Terriergal]

I agree. I can understand one sicko (well, not understand) doing this and having a bunch of people intervene... but for all of them to find this to be good afternoon entertainment? ugh.

[Terriergal]

you might be interested in the "researching other faiths" idea, since you said that's how you came to believe.

[Terriergal]

You are aware that deathbed conversions are exceedingly rare, aren't you?

[steve-b]

They probably aren't a risk to humans

BBBBBZZZZTTTTT!!!!

The correct answer is: "Animal abuse is a well-known predictor of violent psycopathies, up to and including serial murder."

[Diamond]

The time to fix the mistakes you've made is as soon as possible--not at the end when the people you've affected are dead or no longer near you.

I agree, and there's nothing amusing about it, call it what you will. Where we can make amends, we should. The problem is that some of our 'mistakes' simply cannot be 'fixed', particularly when it comes to our own transgressions against the infinite, holy God. As we do not generally know the hour of our death, now is the time for repentence.

Cordially,

[Space Wrangler]

Friggin' animals. Anyone who would do this is capable of much worse. Hopefully they got this guy before he hurt a person or a child. The rest of the people at the 'barbecue' are just as bad. Lowlife scum.