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Man Kills Kitten In Front Of 4-Year-Old
channeloklahoma.com ^ | November 10, 2002 | Associated Press

Posted on 11/10/2002 6:48:31 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy

NEWARK, Ohio -- A Ohio man will spend 30 days in jail for killing a kitten in front of its 4-year-old owner and forcing the girl to help clean up the animal's blood.

Frederick Brumage II, 39, pleaded guilty Saturday to aggravated menacing and cruelty to animals in Licking County Municipal Court.

Brumage also must attend anger-management and mental-health counseling.

Brumage told investigators he was drunk when he visited a neighbor's home Wednesday and became upset when the kitten scratched him.

He burned the cat's paws on a stove burner, then slammed it on the floor with the girl present, according to court records.

He threatened to harm the girl if she told her mother, who was in the shower.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: animalcruelty; brumage; scum
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To: All
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

-- Ghandi

61 posted on 11/11/2002 4:57:50 AM PST by Sungirl
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To: neutrino
No problem!
62 posted on 11/11/2002 5:02:17 AM PST by Skooz
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Unfortunately I think this will get much more press than if the headline was: MAN KILLS FOUR YEAR OLD IN FRONT OF KITTEN.
63 posted on 11/11/2002 9:17:29 AM PST by mlmr
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To: Skooz
I care about both the child and the kitten. The man is just beyond reproach. Not only has he traumatized this child (the effects could last for years), but also killed another living creature- probably an animal the child loved, in front of her. He subjected the child to threats and intimidation, kills an animal in front of a child while drunk, and all he gets is anger management????? Sick and wrong. It's a sad, sad world.
64 posted on 11/11/2002 9:23:04 AM PST by rintense
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To: scopes95
You are 100%, absolutely correct.
65 posted on 11/11/2002 9:23:50 AM PST by rintense
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To: scopes95; rintense
Mega-dittos.
66 posted on 11/11/2002 9:26:44 AM PST by NEWwoman
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To: Pookie Me
He threatened to harm the girl if she told her mother, who was in the shower.


Which begs the question, just what was this cretin's relationship to the mother, and what's this lowlife doing in the house alone with a four-year old while Mom's in the shower?

67 posted on 11/11/2002 9:28:39 AM PST by Fintan
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Pookie Me did a much better job of articulating my reaction to the article.

THANKS FOR THE PLUG!

For my next trick, watch me pull a rabbit out of this hat!

Pookie & ME

68 posted on 11/11/2002 10:34:14 AM PST by Pookie Me
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To: Pushi
"Even in the banana republic of New Mexico, I think he could get 3 years under a relatively new law"

Yeah I hope so-He deserves 3 years breaking rocks and then about 10 cleaning up floors at a stray animal shelter.he wouldn't fare too well in a prison with that story to tell.
69 posted on 11/12/2002 5:28:09 PM PST by Rocksalt
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To: PhilDragoo
"Dahmer began with cruelty to animals."

BINGO! I was waiting for the first person to point out the really scary thing about this guy. I imagine he got a vicarious thrill at his power to injure her to her core.

I would investigate this *expletive deleted* 'til the cows got home if I were the local authorites. If he has no other such act in his past as easily he killed the kitten for merely doing kitten things then dovetailed in an effective and often used manipulation to shut the traumatized kid up so seamlessly, I will eat my size seven and a quarter hat in one sitting.

He deserves as much mercy as he showed that child or kitten. I bet she never again looks at adults in the same light. And she will be formed by things like this into the adult she becomes.

I hope he gets what he deserves after the law slaps his bloody wrists.

70 posted on 11/12/2002 5:43:41 PM PST by Glutton
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Gee, wonder why the kitten scratched him?
72 posted on 11/12/2002 5:58:24 PM PST by copycat
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To: Motherbear
"Your right. Women do need to protect their kids against men like this."

Just a observation; he is no man. He is male, but it takes more then maleness to be a man.

I agree with you 100 percent that this individual deserves no trust. I bet he regrets this from the point of view he will merely feel sorry for his own worthless butt when the community comes down on him.

He sounds too sociopathic to truly understand the gravity of his actions.

73 posted on 11/12/2002 6:11:53 PM PST by Glutton
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Bubba:

How about the wrath of animal lovers that post on this board? I can't believe people care so little about animals that they could feel the way that you do about innocent, loving animals and then have the gaul to mention it here. I guess you wouldn't have posted a thing if he had tortured this sweet kitten in front of only his wife. What a creep you are.
74 posted on 11/12/2002 6:20:32 PM PST by libertylass
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To: libertylass
What a creep you are.

And what an idiot you are. Let me guess. You tried to vote for Gore in 2000, but you couldn't figure out how to use those damn butterfly ballots, right?

As I wrote on my last post,

"If the S.O.B. had tortured and killed a kitten in front of an adult I would have no problem with prosecuting him for animial cruelty. In this case, what he did to the kitten pales in comparison to what he did to the little girl."

I think that torturing kittens is a bad thing, but I think that torturing a little girl is worse than torturing a kitten. I realize that is terribly human-centric of me, but I really don't give a damn.

75 posted on 11/12/2002 8:41:56 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy
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To: Bubba_Leroy
I echo your post. I feel bad for the kitten but even more for the girl. This is a sick sick man.
76 posted on 11/16/2002 9:58:50 PM PST by Terriergal
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To: Amelia
Good question.
77 posted on 11/16/2002 10:03:07 PM PST by Terriergal
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To: Skooz
At the risk of bringing down the wrath of mindless idiots who get orgasms watching animals suffer

Who would they be?

At the risk of bringing down the wrath of mindless idiots who get orgasms watching animals suffer

As opposed to the people who get orgasms watching people suffer?

78 posted on 11/16/2002 10:04:45 PM PST by Terriergal
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To: Bubba_Leroy
I care about both. If someone did that to my kitten in front of my daughter, his life span would have the potential of becoming shorter once I got ahold of him...



79 posted on 11/16/2002 10:16:35 PM PST by Nate505
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To: Terriergal
Who would they be?

Some people here at FR actually laugh at this stuff. That is who I am talking about.

As opposed to the people who get orgasms watching people suffer?

This may come as a shock, but there are some of us who cannot obtain an orgasm from either case.

What's your point?

80 posted on 11/17/2002 4:36:17 AM PST by Skooz
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