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Boys admit killing more than 20 animals in break-in

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MonsterMonster@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68571076

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  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Dafne Moran Toha, defending the 11-year-old boy, said his behaviour was due to his “lack of maturity” and “very young age”.”

    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.

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    • Misconduct@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • LordGimp@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sounds like a good use of chemical castration. Give em the ol Turing treatment.

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  • cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It usually starts with animal cruelty when they’re young. Then they move to people when they grow older.

    Sociopathic killers in the making.

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or younger. The killers of James Bulger were 10.

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    • ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Psychopathic*

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      • Tweak@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah a sociopathic killer would be like Trump killing his political opponents.

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  • AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    and although the boys were “of good character”

    HAHAHAHA is this fucking satire???

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    • bcgm3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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    • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The first paragraph - PETA would approve 🤣

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  • FatLegTed@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Good character my arse. Lock them in with some tigers.

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  • Lifebandit666@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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”

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    • Vegoon@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “Both go home and devour the flesh of a animal, killed for them by a anonymous worker in a factory.”

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      • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Which is normal and good for you lol

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  • Snowpix@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Non-vegans really gonna be mad at this? Lol

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    • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Vegoon@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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    • _xDEADBEEF@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The problem I have with some vegans are that they twnd to be sanctimonious, holier than thou, cunts.

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      • Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This reminds me of the time someone broke into Belfast Zoo and threw a penguin to the lions

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    • Sizzler@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/1184154.stm

      Ffs

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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”.


    The original article contains 409 words, the summary contains 176 words. Saved 57%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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    • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh fuck off, “good character” and “no intention to hurt the animals”.

      Little shits should be locked in a lion enclosure.

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      • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Exactly. Killing animals shows you don’t have good character, it’s literal proof of the opposite.

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  • 8000gnat@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    jfc

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