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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[My Favorite Headache]

Sick bastard

[Britton J Wingfield]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/717209/posts?page=63 duplicate post.

We are already discussing ways of eviscerating this sick loser. None sound painful enough yet.

[kezekiel]

Sounds like a future serial killer. They always start with animals.

[Wrigley]

Castrate him. He shouldn't be allowed to breed.

BTW, I'm seeing Rush this Saturday in Chicago. Have you seen them yet? If you have, how was the show?

[miss marmelstein]

How awful, beyond awful. Why do cats have to suffer so much at our hands? I have a little black cat and I never let her out of my sight...

[sinkspur]

He's already getting some jail house justice, I would wager, as da boys don't like child or animal abusers.

[Lazamataz]

The more I see this stuff, the less hope I have for our race.

[My Favorite Headache]

Do you want a full review or what? Best I have ever seen them. Caught them in Charlotte and VA.Beach. I have been seeing them since Grace in 84. I am sure you heard the setlist and everything by now. Bring some tissues as there are some really moving moments in the show.

[My Favorite Headache]

I was thinking the same thing. The world has gone clear to hell.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

I hope this cat uses one of his remaining eight lives to eviscerate this sick piece of crap and then cook HIM on coals. Of course, I recently saw the movie "The Crow" for the first time, so I'm in a punishment-fitting-the-crime frame of mind.

[Cogadh na Sith]

My bro-in-law hit a guy in the head with a half-full jug of Almaden wine after the guy broke a kitten's neck in front of him at a party. When the cops showed up to break up the party, there was a dead kitten and a guy knocked out cold in the middle of the street and no witnesses.

Sometimes they get what they deserve.

[jodorowsky]

Sick bastards

Feed them to the tigers one by one.

[Jagdgewehr]

10-12 people?

Wow!

I'd hate to live in that apartment complex.

[dixie sass]

What is the matter with the people in this country that they find mutilating helpless children and animals fun? Why?

[Wrigley]

I freepmail you after the show and we'll compare notes. That new album has really grown on me. It's fantastic.

[WellsFargo94]

No kidding, this is just sick and disgusting. Think of witnessing such a despicable act!! How could that crowd just stand around and laugh?

[Hacksaw]

Sad thing is is that there are some FR members who would think this a fine joke.

[Hacksaw]

bump

[Britton J Wingfield]

Buy that man a beer, and shake his hand for me :)