Thursday, January 10, 2008

Cruel Teens


Here is a shocking piece of news I heard the other day. There has been a case of severe animal cruelty perpetrated by a group of 15 year olds who thought it would be fun to break into a private residence and torture the family cat by placing it in a microwave oven and killing it.I was appalled by this utter callousness.
Any normal person cannot help but feel great sorrow for the terror and pain this poor animal experienced.I wonder how these kids would feel if someone stuffed them into a microwave and turned it on.
I think they will be let off lightly as they are minors. This is not right, for those who inflict deliberate pain and suffering on any animal deserve to be treated with no sympathy. Studies have shown that those who commit such horrific acts of cruelty against animals in their younger days usually continue with their violent actions later in life against humans.
I honestly feel that this should be viewed very seriously and the offenders awarded a much heavier penalty. They ought to be publicly humiliated as this would offer their peers and other youth a powerful deterrent in performing similiar senseless crimes.In my opinion,responsibility in such cases lies partially in the hands of the parents. Qualities like kindness, empathy, generosity and compassion must be inculcated in our youth. What are we spawning? A generation of ferocious, barbaric brutes??

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Amazing cruelty. Rare and savage. Kids of that ilk should be thrashed and counselled. Parents too need counselling for raising such brutes. I have not told my kids about this as I know they will never be able to get over the idea of such cruelty as they love pets dearly.

Anonymous said...

im jst plain horrified!!
seriously at a loss for words!!
jst cant understand these kids' idea of "FUN"!!!!!!!!!!!!

indimom