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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Paul
,,, don't stop there, there's other, bigger words to use. Come on, hit us with some more.
I am going to go against the grain here on FR.. I will take heat for it, but if it enlightens you then it's worth it..
I don't care what you do or when you die.. God is a perfect judge.
Jesus said he knows what's in a man and surely God can judge that at 2 months as well as he can at 200 years.
Surely you will pay for your crimes.. There is no escape.
So yes, he can judge people righously regardless of what they do...
,,, that's for me to assume about you if you don't hit us with more BIG WORDS, RIGHT NOW. COME ON!!!!!
But when I do, to make a fair judgement in accordance with the scriptures..
"Judge all things"
PS: If this is a contradiction to you then you need to read more and complain less.
Could be, although I tend to think he's just a wacko in need of some correcting, like maybe spending a little time in a padded cell.
Why the sarcasm? Do you really think that I do not understand the meaning of repentence?
Cordially,
...They have not begun to fix the pain they created...they leave messes for everyone else.
In your view, do wife beaters, murderers, rapists, et al deserve punishment for their actions, or is it possible for them to "make amends"?
In your view, how would wife beaters, murderers, adulterers, rapists and the like "fix the pain they created"? Isn't that a little like trying to "un-ring a bell"?
Cordially,
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