7 year old boy kills animals at zoo

[brokenxbeauty]

I saw this on another forum as well.
It's so sad, I feel sorry for the animals as well as the child. I hope he gets some help and learns that things like that are definitely NOT OKAY.

 

[sharkbytes]

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Originally Posted by glassy girl Well in that case my family need to be dead cuz they have killed a chicken/cow/pig/ and the worst part i have eaten them. No really how about all those hunters do u feel the same about them.

That's a completely different scenario. From your statement, I'm assuming that you're family hunts or farms, and eats what they kill. That's light years away from just tossing animals into a gator pit just for laughs. Before anyone says it, I disagree strongly with hunting and fishing for sport, but actually eating what you hunt and fish isn't sadistic or in the same ballpark as that awful little boy.

 

[Ayustar]

What I think is more messed up is that this 7 year old was left unattended for 30 minutes while he did this...um, who leaves a 7 year old by themselves for ANY period of time?

I think it works both ways, I think you can be born with mental issues or you can develop them in early childhood. You have to consider some genetics too, you can't always blame it on the environment *I am sure for the most part you can, but not always.*

 

[redambition]

that's sickening. i hope the kid gets the help he needs.

 

[florabundance]

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Originally Posted by M.A.C. head. Honestly, what's more disturbing to me is how some of you are commenting about this little boy. YOU are the sick ones. Period. I'm an animal lover and I am very sad about what happened, but what some of the ignorance in here is displaying is that you aren't aware of the fact that THE BOY IS A VICTIM OF SOMETHING TOO. Children don't just become like this. And even if he was aware of what he was doing was wrong, there was a deeper reason for why he did it, and THAT should be the focus; besides how to help him of course.

I agree.
I wasn't so much angered by his actions - more disturbed and confused as to how/why/what was going on because it is SO much more than a boy breaking into a zoo and killing animals. There is obviously something INCREDIBLY wrong going on.

When I was around 2 a boy the same age as me was kidnapped by two 10 year old boys and tortured and murdered. These two boys served 8 years in prison and were released at age 18. Their backgrounds were absolutely awful. They were beaten by parents, left alone to watch their father's pornography and violent movies..and it was found that what they had subjected that poor baby boy to, was mimicking what they had seen in said movies.

The mind of a child can be a VERY, VERY fragile thing.

 

[Girl about town]

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Originally Posted by florabundance I agree. I wasn't so much angered by his actions - more disturbed and confused as to how/why/what was going on because it is SO much more than a boy breaking into a zoo and killing animals. There is obviously something INCREDIBLY wrong going on. When I was around 2 a boy the same age as me was kidnapped by two 10 year old boys and tortured and murdered. These two boys served 8 years in prison and were released at age 18. Their backgrounds were absolutely awful. They were beaten by parents, left alone to watch their father's pornography and violent movies..and it was found that what they had subjected that poor baby boy to, was mimicking what they had seen in said movies. The mind of a child can be a VERY, VERY fragile thing.

Hey i remember this murder also, the boys who committed the murder were kept in various mental health premises till recent years and now live theie lives under police protection. I know someone who worked with one of these boys as an adult and she said he is still a nasty piece of work, so i don't believe it was simply a case of an innocent mind being warped by bad parenting.

I believe people are born psychopaths and they simply don't have the capacity to feel guilt and allow themselves to follow the deepest darkest desires they have.

Having read a lot about the Macdonald triad and how the prescence of cruelty to animals , bed wetting to a late age, and fire raising are early warning indicators of a psychopathic personality, i would agree that this boy needs help and some intensive therapy. However a lot of psychotherapists argue that a sociopathic/psychopathic personality cannot be cured, so if he is a psychopath there is nothing any mental health professionals would be able to do x

 

[kittykit]

That's really disturbing. He enjoyed what he was doing. He seriously needs help. Since he's too young to be charged, his parents should be responsible for this.

When my brother was 5, he caught a baby frog. My mom told him to let it go by saying, 'His mommy must be looking for him now. His mommy must be so worried.' My brother let it go and until today, at 18, he doesn't even kill an ant!

I wonder how this little kid was brought up in the family.

 

[abbey_08]

i was really shocked when i read this, at first i couldnt believe it! they said security cameras didnt pick him up doing it because he was so little. how awful though! how on earth did he manage to get out of home and do this without his parents knowing!? its really sickening. he needs to have serious councilling and his parents need to be punished because they are responsible for their childs actions! but seriously at 7 what kind of child has these thoughts! very disturbed little boy.

 

[M.A.C. head.]

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Originally Posted by MACATTAK An opinion might differ depending on what side of the Nature vs. Nurture theory you agree on.

I see your point, and I believe that every person's personality is created from the combination of the two. I just didn't agree with how a lot of posters automatically jumped up to say that he was just an evil little boy and sort of insinuating that he only did it because he's evil. In one post, I did say that maybe there was none of those external examples going on, and that maybe he really is just mentally disturbed, but I don't like to just rush to a conclusion like that; because as another member mentioned, we don't know all of the details.

 

[Simply Elegant]

External events can help explain why he did what he did. It's all about perception. What you may see as an "okay" family life may not be perceived the same way althiugh he probably doesn't realize any of this. He probably does have an undiagnosed mental disorder but I'm sure that his parents probably aren't the greatest either.

 

[Beauty Mark]

I think further investigation needs to be done. Sometimes, people are just bad. I can't explain it any further, and I don't think psychology can always, either. Maybe this child was abused, maybe he wasn't hugged/disciplined/whatever enough, maybe he had the greatest childhood ever.

What bothers me more is the mother or staff wasn't around or didn't stop him. I'm under the impression this child somehow had access to places he shouldn't. Unless he has one hell of a pitching arm, I don't understand how he able to throw the lizards over the wall so easily. It sounds like an accident for a human baby waiting to happen, like someone stupidly resting a child on the wall of the crocodile enclosure.

 

[glassy girl]

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Originally Posted by sharkbytes That's a completely different scenario. From your statement, I'm assuming that you're family hunts or farms, and eats what they kill. That's light years away from just tossing animals into a gator pit just for laughs. Before anyone says it, I disagree strongly with hunting and fishing for sport, but actually eating what you hunt and fish isn't sadistic or in the same ballpark as that awful little boy.

Thanks i didn't mean to be a smart ass about it. But this is to everybody all the people that said he should have fallen with the gators ect do they have Kids well i do and he's almost the same age as this kid and i honestly belive children this age do not fully understand there actions there not mentally develop yes they no what is bad an what is good(well most anyway) but thats if a child is being raised by good morals loving home ect. But if a child has no guidance no rules no love what can u expect hey just toss him in with the gators yea great solution. Im not saying what this kid did was ok but what if he honestly just wanted 2 feed the gators,no evil agenda just wanted 2 feed the gators. There so much more to this story. As far as the parents go if there bad parents the child should be out of the home, but sometimes u could do ur best u know and still have a horrible child.

 

[*Stargazer*]

Ehh, maybe external events shaped this kid, maybe not. I'm a firm believer that some kids are born sociopaths. Given that this kid's older brother had been in trouble in a similar situation, it's probably environmental. Doesn't mean it always is, though.

All I know is that if that were my kid, by the time I'd finished with him, he'd wish he'd fed himself to the croc instead of those poor animals.

 

[LadyFaenyx]

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Originally Posted by glassy girl Well in that case my family need to be dead cuz they have killed a chicken/cow/pig/ and the worst part i have eaten them. No really how about all those hunters do u feel the same about them.

Yes I do.
I strongly disagree with killing animals for ANY reason.
But that's just my personal belief system.

 

[Beauty Mark]

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Originally Posted by glassy girl Thanks i didn't mean to be a smart ass about it. But this is to everybody all the people that said he should have fallen with the gators ect do they have Kids well i do and he's almost the same age as this kid and i honestly belive children this age do not fully understand there actions there not mentally develop yes they no what is bad an what is good(well most anyway) but thats if a child is being raised by good morals loving home ect. But if a child has no guidance no rules no love what can u expect hey just toss him in with the gators yea great solution. Im not saying what this kid did was ok but what if he honestly just wanted 2 feed the gators,no evil agenda just wanted 2 feed the gators. There so much more to this story. As far as the parents go if there bad parents the child should be out of the home, but sometimes u could do ur best u know and still have a horrible child.

I think bludgeoning a lizard is pretty bad, and you can't justify that as merely he wanted to feed some hungry animals.

I could maybe see that excuse if all he did was feed lizards to the crocodiles. However, beating an animal to death with a rock is pretty deliberate.

 

[glassy girl]

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Originally Posted by Beauty Mark I think bludgeoning a lizard is pretty bad, and you can't justify that as merely he wanted to feed some hungry animals. I could maybe see that excuse if all he did was feed lizards to the crocodiles. However, beating an animal to death with a rock is pretty deliberate.

You are right i agree about beating the animal to death.

 

[glassy girl]

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Originally Posted by LadyFaenyx Yes I do. I strongly disagree with killing animals for ANY reason. But that's just my personal belief system.

So i take it ur a vegetarian? I don't agree with hunting for pleasure or killing a animal for it's fur but i eat meat all the time and they obviously have to kill some kind of animal 4 that pig/chicken/cow/ect. Now do i think it's ok 4 some one to go and torture one of these animal or reptile just 4 fun and not just for food of course not. But u gotta remember gators eat these kind of reptiles and animals in the wild all the time. Does anyone no what zoos feed there gators (just curious) I'm not trying to sound ignorant what this child did was not ok i agree with everybody on this,

 

[ohnna-lee]

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Originally Posted by glassy girl So i take it ur a vegetarian? I don't agree with hunting for pleasure or killing a animal for it's fur but i eat meat all the time and they obviously have to kill some kind of animal 4 that pig/chicken/cow/ect. Now do i think it's ok 4 some one to go and torture one of these animal or reptile just 4 fun and not just for food of course not. But u gotta remember gators eat these kind of reptiles and animals in the wild all the time. Does anyone no what zoos feed there gators (just curious) I'm not trying to sound ignorant what this child did was not ok i agree with everybody on this,

I would guess chickens, I saw a video somewhere of gators being fed in a large enclosure and it was buckets of chicken.

 

[Beauty Mark]

The zoo keepers probably do meat feedings. I doubt it would be a live kill; I don't think most people could handle it. People feed their pet snakes meat of some kind (I hear it's in the form of freeze-dried rats), so I don't see why a zoo would be different. I don't think anyone is blaming the crocs for eating up what they saw. It's just food to them.

 

[glassy girl]

No one is blaming the gators i just ask a question ( i seriously just wondered what they feed them) Any ways i think i'm done with this thread. My only concern now is that lil boy if he is what u guys say he is (a serial killer in the making) then we have much more to worry about then some reptiles. Or if he's being abused or neglected then i just hope that lil boy can get some help and some love. Thats it i'm done.