Dahmer began with cruelty to animals.
The perp intended to terrify the girl.
The perp is on a sliding scale of increased tolerance and will require more sadism.
Someone needs to end the perp's existence--
Polly Klaus was killed by a "reformed" child rapist.
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.