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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: tuolumnejim on March 14, 2008, 07:27:06 PM
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I'm in shock and extremley mad at the same time. I hope this *sshole gets to share a cell with a big SOB that likes pets. :hammer:
Link (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/14/national/main3937815.shtml?source=mostpop_story)
(AP) A man was jailed Thursday on charges he forced his 7-year-old daughter to kill the family cat by holding a knife in her hand and making her stab the pet.
Danield J. Collins, 39, told his children during a visit to his home on Sunday that he wanted them to "learn how to kill" and gave his 11-year-old son a knife to do it, according to an affidavit filed in the case.
The boy tried to save the cat by hiding it under a sofa bed and putting ketchup on a knife when Collins went to the bathroom. But when the father realized the cat was not dead, he forced his daughter to hold the knife and then held her hand tightly as he drove the knife into the animal, Muncie police Detective Jami Brown said.
Police said Collins stabbed and strangled the cat himself, and told his son to throw the dead pet in the trash. Officers retrieved the carcass to be used as evidence.
The children told family members on Monday, the day after the alleged killing, according to the affidavit. The children told police their father was drunk when they arrived at his home and that he's a different person when he's drunk, it said. The siblings live with their grandparents.
Collins was being held in the Delaware County Jail on $40,000 bond. He's charged with one count each of animal cruelty and battery and two counts of neglect of a dependent. The battery charge alleges the girl was injured because Collins held her hand so hard that her hand ached.
The jail had no record of an attorney representing Collins and there were no published phone listings for him in Muncie.
Muncie police Detective Jami Brown said the case was particularly troubling because Collins involved his children in killing the cat, an 8-month-old tuxedo type-cat named Boots.
"I've been doing investigations for 10 years and this is really bothering me," the detective said.
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Mixed feelings here. Firstly, if he wanted to teach his daughter how to kill, how about game while hunting (like a deer)? Secondly, while he may have been a bit harsh with the kids we're really talking $40000 for the animal cruelty, aren't we? That seems excessive to me.
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:hammer: :mental: :sadistic: :loser:
He shouldn't be allowed near children let alone animals.
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Good for him!
It will help the child build character.
Our last three elderly pets, when it hit a certain point, we would lock the cat and the oldest child in a room and leave a ball peen hammer in there and tell her only one of them was coming out.
The first one took two days, but It might have been because the hammer was too heavy for a 6 year old.
Good times.
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Good for him!
It will help the child build character.
Our last three elderly pets, when it hit a certain point, we would lock the cat and the oldest child in a room and leave a ball peen hammer in there and tell her only one of them was coming out.
The first one took two days, but It might have been because the hammer was too heavy for a 6 year old.
Good times.
:rotf: :rotf: