Guest guest Posted May 10, 2004 Report Share Posted May 10, 2004 Kitten Killed by 6-year-old A beloved pet lies still - silenced forever by a child. NO UPDATES - we are waiting for the owner of the cat to feel comfortable exhuming the body. To date she has had a difficult time doing this, which we understand. But, as we explained to her, without the body, we have no case and if we do not try and pursue this, this boy WILL do this again. BACKGROUND: his may be one of the saddest cases we've ever faced. A six-year-old boy appears to have beat a cat to death.The owner contacted Pasado's Safe Haven when authorities said there was nothing they could do about the killing, because the boy was only 6-years-old. Which is not true. Under Washington State law, six years of age is when mandatory psychiatric evaluation and treatment can be imposed.The owner of the cat is heartbroken. She found the cat dead when she returned home. She talked with the owner of a business next door to her house who saw the young boy beating the cat and "hitting it with a stick". When the boy saw the man, he apparently fled to his yard. When authorities were called, they spoke with the business owner, who pointed out where the boy lived. When the officer spoke with the boy's mother, he returned to the owner of the cat and told her there was nothing that could be done due to his age. They would "refer" the case to animal control. Animal control never called her. That's when she contacted Pasado's Safe Haven. To read the rest of this story, go to: http://www.pasadosafehaven.org/INVESTIGATION/Six_year_old_killer.htm Please crosspost. Thanks! Info. in this alert is from Pasado's Safe Haven web site: http://www.pasadosafehaven.org/index.html In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html < http://www4.law.cornell/ > > ATTACHMENT part 2 image/gif name=SixYearOld.gif Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at HotJobs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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