Cruel Children & A Burned Cat

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I was just reading the news and came across the story of Adam, a 3 month old kitten that is fighting for his life. Apparently when he was 8 weeks old, a farmer had trapped a bunch of kittens that were loose on his farm in one of those cages and was going to have them spayed and neutered and then realsed back on his farm. Well the cage of kittens got stolen. Now here's where it gets ugly... a 10 year old boy and his friend saw smoke behind their apartment complex and heard a kitten crying, they went to see what it was and found this poor kitten in it's cage on fire with two 15 yr old girls standing by an laughing. The boys called for help. The two girls had poured a flammable liquid over the kitten and the cage, set him on fire then stood there to watch and laugh. He still has raw patches with no skin and is fighting for his life. The vet taking care of him is doing so for free however it's still going to cause upwards of $20,ooo to keep treating him and keep him alive. The two girls now face animal abuse charges. Some citizens of Sonoma County, California at the amount of press coverage the kitten is getting saying a 16 yr old boy was murdered there last year and did not get as much coverage. You can read the story here... http://comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2007/07/18/717977.html This made me cry, it angers me to no end and scares me too. I would never, ever in a million 'effin years harm an animal on purpose. When I was 15 and bored, you know what I did? I freakin read... imagine that. I get so angry at the fact that I've noticed so many of today's kids have no value for life at all. Now yes I know there are many children who do and I comend their parents. But I've noticed an alarming number of children, teens especially, who have no care or concern or value for the meaning of life. I think it really is partially to do with all the violence on tv and in video games and online that they are exposed to. Wow, now I sound old, lol. But seriously, if you are constantly watching violence, playing violence, listening to violence, well no duh... you're gonna be inclined towards violence. And I hate to be the finger pointer but where in the hell are the parents when their children are obviously unattended and setting animals on fire? Now I understand that every situation is different and maybe they had single parents. But that's not an excuse, I'm sick and tired of people blaming bad parenting on being a single parent. I was raised by a single mother who worked 3 jobs and still had time to teach me the value of life, spend quality time with me and guess what... I'm not a violent little monster. I just don't get it. Studies have shown that nearly 100% of serial killers tortured animals as children and teens. That's a pretty serious statistic to me and I think that more people should wake up to that fact. Maybe this was better posted in parenting but I can't paste yet so it stays here. My heart goes out to that little kitten and it's litter mates who have yet to be found. Nobody knows what they did with the other kittens.