It usually starts with animal cruelty when they’re young. Then they move to people when they grow older.
Sociopathic killers in the making.
Boys admit killing more than 20 animals in break-in
Submitted 8 months ago by MonsterMonster@lemmy.world to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68571076
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cyborganism@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Or younger. The killers of James Bulger were 10.
ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Psychopathic*
Tweak@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Yeah a sociopathic killer would be like Trump killing his political opponents.
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 8 months ago
and although the boys were “of good character”
HAHAHAHA is this fucking satire???
bcgm3@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think they meant that the boys were of good character, besides the breaking and entering, vandalism, property damage, theft, cruelty to animals, and massacre.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 8 months ago
They entered the areas they should not be in and can be seen throwing animals around, slamming them on the floor, stamping on them
Ms Toha said the boys “did not have any intention to hurt” the animals
What were they trying to do?
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Maybe they missed. And though all animals go to heaven. Looked around earth. And decided they were helping.
Nah its the sort of bulshit statement only a lawyer van make… without throwing up in the judges lap.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 8 months ago
The first paragraph - PETA would approve 🤣
FatLegTed@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Good character my arse. Lock them in with some tigers.
Lifebandit666@feddit.uk 8 months ago
“What happened?”
“Oh he drop kicked a hedgehog”
“And he’s 11?”
“Yes”
“Right well morally I believe he should be eaten alive by a tiger or a lion”
“You might be a psychopath”
“So might he”
“Great”
“Great”
Vegoon@feddit.de 8 months ago
“Both go home and devour the flesh of a animal, killed for them by a anonymous worker in a factory.”
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Which is normal and good for you lol
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
ITT: Vegan trolls using this thread as an excuse to attack people for caring about this incident but eat meat, rather than discussing how horrible this was. FFS people, not everything has to be about your agenda.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 8 months ago
Non-vegans really gonna be mad at this? Lol
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Honestly mate, comments like this don’t help.
Quantising the whole world as good/bad with no in-between just puts people off considering another viewpoint.You might have meant to say “People who still eat animals should think about why they hate this, but still eat meat”, but it comes across as “People who eat any meat at all shouldn’t be mad at this”.
What you end up doing is lumping people who are genuinely trying to reduce their consumption over time, with people who eat steak for every meal and kick puppies.
Vegoon@feddit.de 8 months ago
It is always just a black and white thing without seeing the good things. Just like this kid, he could have maybe killed more and has restrained himself really hard. If we blame him for what he did he will just kill more the next time.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 8 months ago
What you end up doing is lumping people who are genuinely trying to reduce their consumption over time, with people who eat steak for every meal and kick puppies.
I mean yeah? They are genuinely trying not to shove something in their mouth? How does that work?
_xDEADBEEF@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The problem I have with some vegans are that they twnd to be sanctimonious, holier than thou, cunts.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 8 months ago
Right, thats a great reason to kill animals for your taste pleasure. You may now feel like you are better than the kid in the article.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 8 months ago
This reminds me of the time someone broke into Belfast Zoo and threw a penguin to the lions
Sizzler@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 8 months ago
On Monday a training centre in Londonderry for people with special needs was attacked by vandals.
They decapitated a chipmunk and stole three others from the Ashbrook vocational centre.
Mad.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 8 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Two boys aged 11 and 12 have pleaded guilty to cruelty charges after more than 20 animals were killed during a burglary at an environmental college.
The court heard the boys also stole various animals from the environmental college including ferrets, guinea pigs and three snakes.
Prosecutor Vijay Khuttan said CCTV footage, which was not shown in court, displayed “extreme animal cruelty”, and although the boys were “of good character” the offences represented a “significant jump into criminality”.
He added he disputed the basis of the boys’ guilty pleas, saying: “They are absolving themselves of practically any responsibility for the injuries and deaths of the animals.”
Ms Toha said the boys “did not have any intention to hurt” the animals and her client was “very remorseful”, adding that his actions were “completely out of character”.
However, Dr Basra added that the court felt a hearing to discuss the basis of plea was not necessary because of the age of the boys, and the fact they were first-time offenders who “pleaded guilty on the first possible occasion”.
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Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Oh fuck off, “good character” and “no intention to hurt the animals”.
Little shits should be locked in a lion enclosure.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Exactly. Killing animals shows you don’t have good character, it’s literal proof of the opposite.
8000gnat@reddthat.com 8 months ago
jfc
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Fuck that bullshit. There are hundreds of millions of young people with little maturity across the entire globe, and hardly any of them decide it will be a good idea to murder small animals. These boys are mentally ill in some form or another and need therapy or meds of some sort.
Misconduct@startrek.website 8 months ago
When I was that age I cried inconsolably over a bluegill I caught that swallowed the hook. Imagining the pain I caused it when they cut the line and threw it back was a lot for me and the adults around me thought it was hilarious that I cared. People trying to defend this by saying kids don’t have empathy or understand what they’re doing are full of shit. If that kid doesn’t have empathy it’s not because he’s 11 it’s because there’s something very wrong with him.
LordGimp@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Sounds like a good use of chemical castration. Give em the ol Turing treatment.