Two boys, aged 17 and 18, face up to a 25 year sentence after being arrested for setting fire to a cat, which was severely burned and had to be euthanised.
The boys took a cat and broke into an empty apartment in Brooklyn, New York. There they doused the cat with barbeque fuel, and set it alight.
The cat was discovered the next day, alive, but veterinarians felt there was nothing that could be done for it, so it was destroyed.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals pursued an investigation into the case, and was apparently connected to the arrest of the duo.
The pair were charged with arson and animal cruelty, as well as other charges, with a potential maximum of 25 years, which would be more than many serious crimes involving human victims. It is not clear what sentence the prosecution will seek.
Via AFP.
We have also seen the other extreme in dealing with cat abuse, that of total lenience; it seems neither extreme is quite appropriate, and the fact that these boys were minors also bears consideration…
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17/18 are almost never tried as "minors"
25 years is going easy. Even I could sit in a cell for 25 years, a monkey could too. Just treating them like zoo animals doesn't count as proper punishment. If it were up to me, they'd have a different section of their skin burned everyday for those 25 years then leave them in the middle of some deserted apartment and see how they fair.
... Arseholes. (hahaha, I really tried hard not to swear but there's just no other way to describe idiots like these)
25 years is too much for just a cat.
Why do other animals need to die by destroying their home and it's not a big deal and then this happens and it's such a problem then.
Sentence should be smaller,they still deserve to be punished,since someone though of such rights.
Not totaly unneded,but i wouldn't mind if a homeless guy would be catching stray cats for food.
But it would be a problem if it was a cat owned by someone.
Btw i do love cats
their punishment fits their crime
Interesting... setting a pussy on fire = 25 years behind bars... I shall take note of that
pussy is one of protected species.
and in this case, it may have been a rare breed
This made my day, 25 yrs for killing a cat..
Where i live in (Europe) most ppl get 7-10 yrs for murder.
Whoa, while I don't like the sound of burning cat, but getting punishment as heavy as homicide is getting uneven punishment, we need to punish vandalist 25 years as well, that would make things more fairer.
Heh... here where i live mass murderers get less in jail... kinda sad (21 years)
Dead kitteh is dead, meh iz sad.
1. bout 90% of folks here would be watching these two burn with a calm face while hearing them cry in agony. Oh, that's because cute kittehs are cute and shitty humans are damn ugly. Really, cats are much better that humans. You're nuts, guys!
2. On planet earth we have bout 250 born and more than 200 dead per minute for peoplz. A certain percent of them dies unnaturally.
Saem goes to cats.
Now, can you guess how many cats are being killed on planet earth per minute?
It's liek ... ehm... 5? 7? 10? more?
Over 9000 per day?
U're being strange not making a fuss out of it. Oh, yeah, you can't prevent what you don't know, sure. Let's avenge some Dusties and other random kittehs.
My cat had kittehs last week. Not all of them will survive. Cats die. Peoplz kill.
Nature.
Well said, /b/rother.
I tip my hat to you.
Haven't read anything, cause I'm short on time, but I post anyway.
You need to put those bastards through hell.
Step 1: Leave them 3 days without any contact at all in a black box. Each in his very own black box, we are generous.
Step 2: Punch the hell out of them for, like 10 minutes, after they got out.
Step 3: Cut of their manhood. (Where did I get the idea for that one, I wonder...)
Step 4: Be creative about the usage of SALT.
Step 5: Break every bone of their bodys.
.
.
.
You can add more steps if you like.
Final step: 25 Years jail. An every month you start from step 1 again and again and again.
Yeah.. those bastards.
It's not nice to kill humans or to torment humans and than kill, but to do such thing to a cat is just one of the worst things. I hope they rot away in jail.
"It’s not nice to kill humans or to torment humans and than kill, but to do such thing to a cat is just one of the worst things. I hope they rot away in jail."
Are you fucked up?
It's not nice to kill humans but to do such a thing to a cat is one of the worst things?
Man! humans are sentinent beings their existence is by far more important that fucking cats!
of course these two guys are fucking bitches and should be put in jail for some time but torture them for 25 years every day for a fucking cat is just TOO MUCH, I bet you wouldn't post your bullshit in a post relating to raping and torturing other humans.
ITS A FUCKING CAT, like you walk on a cockroach and kill it its just another animal, a lesser being, ofc there's no justification to what they did and a cat may be smarter than a cockroach but because he is furry and cute they should be tortured for 25 years? and i bet some of us posters killed more than once a mouse in the house.
man thats sooo mean. poor cat.
25 years? That it?
Maybe 25 years on fire would show them.
NEDM - Not Even Doom Music
yes, it's like the russian incident only it was on a video with doom music, i believe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-1MxraQMI0
a pretty old fad
The world would run sooo much better if we followed "an eye for an eye." It would weed out the parasites to society.
The two clearly knew what they were doing. I say burn the two alive, but leave them within an inch of their lives only to be told a day later that nothing could be done to save them. Then have them "destroyed."
wow 25 years? GG to those guys
remember they BROKE THE HOUSE AND KIDNAPPED THE CAT AND SET IT ON FIRE!!
if they put fire on stray cat maybe they get 5 years, but the motive is clearly vicious, just imagine if someone broke your house, steal your android maid, rape it, and put it on fire??
hmm sound good guro hentai idea..
The 25 years won't be for the cat it will be for the arson charge. They set fire to the cat in an empty apartment, preumably some of the other apartments weren't empty. If you knowlingly set fire to something in a building, particulalrly an occupied one that is arson. If the fire had have caught and burned the building down they would have been up for murder ot attempted murder.
Just feed them to the bigger cats and see them in action in a reality TV.
A Cat is Fire Too
As a cat lover this is just unbelievable... This and putting cats in microwave ovens! >.<
What? They need to warn me about the microwave oven or I might sue them for it. Actually...I think I need to call my lawyer Kid.
25 years for just bruning a cat, lol........
only in America
yeah, my first thought was "this can't be china"
ehh...not really, it's not so much the cat as the fire and where they did it. It was an occupied apartment building, and possibility that they could have set the whole thing up is pretty decent.
Dear Artefact,
Please stop posting news stories like this.
I'll take bizarre racism, tumors, weird loli-related crimes. I'll even take depressing stories about girls being gangraped. But I don't want to read any more stories about animal suffering.
Oh please. Stop treating animals like they're human. Those boys shouldn't get 25 years for a stupid cat... if anything, just a fine should be enough.
Fine + Community Service + Mandatory All Clothes Soaked in Cat Urine for a Minimum 5 Years
Only then will justice be served.
You are right. Cats are fare more worth than humans. And 25 years is just to easy for them. Let's just do, what I suggested before:
I hate hearing stories like this, these kids need to be punished. Assholes.
when they die they are gonna burn...IN HELL
Should set their ass on fire and let them feel it.
I say a good old eye-for-an-eye...
Light them on fire and see how it feels~
Yet another argument for beating your kids.
If they were my kids, I'd beat them for three days straight with a pillow case filled with grapefruits as that supposedly doesn't leave bruises.
Never seen so many ANGRY comments in a post here...
Even in other extreme cases relating to human torture,
now, don't you thing 25 years is too much? you mean raping and killing humans is better than burning cats?
of course they are complete fucktards and are pretty fucking sick but 25 years?
The 2 years + fines sounds good and if they wanna torture cats they should go to china..
You know you're right, 25 years isn't appropriate for this.
I'd say "Monday Night Rehabilitation" is better option.
fuck human society , you can get out from jail for killing child after 2 years for good behavior , but you get 25 for burning a cat . fuck USA , and russian and all the bitches who have lousy justice system
Let's deem them mentally ill and hold them in jail indefinitely. Lolololol.
Funny... Reading the comments here and then thinking about the content of the average comment on pages that deal with Japan's whale/dolphin hunting really makes me realize how twisted the double-standard morals of some of you people really are... For those who doesn't know what I'm talking about, it could basically be summed up accordingly: "Setting a cat on fire or driving the dolphins to extinction, if it's the Japanese who commits the atrocity, it's okay." Frankly speaking, that's just despicable.
this has nothing to do with japan in the first place,
and u need to kill for food even if other dont think what u are doing is right.
AVENGE THE NEKO!
KILL THEM WITH FIRE!
It's funny, murderers and rapists can get off on a lighter sentence but once a cat is involved.....
simple solution, cut a piece off of each of them, cook it and feed it to the other ... continue til they have no arms or legs, lips or ears, eyelids or dicks...
then drop them in a Brazilian prison as a f**ktoy for all the inmates and film it...
This world is fucked. Its a cat for fuck sakes! How can people measure a cat to a person. It's ridiculous getting 25 years to life for such an offense. A mental institute is where they belong, and how would giving them the same punishment solve anything. Retributive justice makes the world go blind.
I can easily measure a cat to a person. I'd value a cats life more. Cats don't get in front of me in lines, there are too many humans on the planet anyway.
Man, if it were up to me I would have done something much worse to the two fuckers. Anyone got their names? I live by Brooklyn.
Their names are on this link, dude.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/two-teenagers-charged-with-setting-cat-on-fire/?scp=1&sq=25%20years%20setting%20cat%20on%20fire&st=cse [http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/two-teenagers-charged-with-setting-cat-on-fire/?scp=1&sq=25 years setting cat on fire&st=cse]
Great. Now we need to organize a group of goons.