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It has also been found that children who are cruel to animals have often witnessed or been victims of abuse themselves. [46] In two separate studies cited by the Humane Society of the United States, roughly one-third of families suffering from domestic abuse indicated that at least one child had hurt or killed a pet. [47]
Young highlights the dangers of allowing children to torment animals, suggesting that such behaviour, if unchecked, can lead to callousness in adulthood. He then turns to the cruelty inherent in popular entertainment, such as bull-baiting , cockfighting , and hunting for sport , which he condemns for promoting insensitivity and vice.
FBI special agent Alan Brantly believed that some offenders kill animals as a rehearsal for killing human victims. [9] Cruelty to animals is mainly used to vent frustration and anger the same way firesetting is. Extensive amounts of humiliation were also found in the childhoods of children who engaged in acts of cruelty to animals.
A Texas teen is accused of killing a classmate’s show goat by force-feeding it pesticide. Aubrey Vanlandingham, 17, is charged with cruelty to livestock animals, a felony, according to court ...
Maternal Infanticide, the killing of dependent young by the mother, is rare in non-human primates and has been reported only a handful of times. Maternal infanticide has been reported once in brown mantled tamarins, Saguinus fuscicollis , once in black fronted titis, Callicebus nigrifrons , and four times in mustached tamarins, Saguinus mystax ...
Vanlandingham was arrested on Nov. 22 and charged with cruelty to livestock animals, a jail felony in Texas. She was released the same day on a $5,000 bond. If convicted, she could face up to two ...
Mary Ellen Wilson (March 1864 – October 30, 1956), also called Mary Ellen McCormack, was an American victim of child abuse whose case led to the creation of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the first child protection agency in the world. [1]
In many instances of nonparental infanticide in carnivores, the male of a species kills the young of a female to make her sexually receptive, e.g. brown bears. When one or two new male lions defeat and exile the previous males of a pride, the conqueror(s) will often kill any existing young cubs fathered by the losers. [3]