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This is very funny:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20081003/tod-uk-australia-zoo-b7e5c6f.html

Still, control your bloody kids!

I hope they do sue the parents, parents that cant control their children should be held 100% accountable.

I agree, i dont find it funny at all actually.

Yep...the parents should be sued for sure...and I agree with the centre director...boot up the ar5e for the brat too.

I think the kid should be held responsible too...most 7 yo's would know that doing that to live animals is wrong especially as it says the he bludgoened three to death himself.

Regards
JAS

Yeah not cool at all. If the kid is doing this stuff at such a young age what is he going to be like in 6-10 years???? My guess is he'll be a delinquent leading to more dangerous and cruel acts, even towards humans...

GWW wrote:I agree, i dont find it at funny at all actually.

Agreed, not funny at all. The parents should be held responsible, but perhaps, also, he should be removed from their care transferred to a kind but predictable and firm environment before he gets much older and the patterns are entrenched. Done early enough it may work.

luvcricket wrote:Yeah not cool at all. If the kid is doing this stuff at such a young age what is he going to be like in 6-10 years???? My guess is he'll be a delinquent leading to more dangerous and cruel acts, even towards humans...

I'd hope the authorities would take the childs actions very seriouly. I'm fairly sure I once read somewhere or maybe saw on a ducumentary that many notable serial killers started out by torturing animals when they were kids. Might sound extreme but the same was probably thought about them at the time too.

Regards
JAS

JAS wrote:

luvcricket wrote:Yeah not cool at all. If the kid is doing this stuff at such a young age what is he going to be like in 6-10 years???? My guess is he'll be a delinquent leading to more dangerous and cruel acts, even towards humans...

I'd hope the authorities would take the childs actions very seriouly. I'm fairly sure I once read somewhere or maybe saw on a ducumentary that many notable serial killers started out by torturing animals when they were kids. Might sound extreme but the same was probably thought about them at the time too.

Regards
JAS

I think so JAS. There is evidence that such behaviour needs to be taken seriously and corrected as early as possible, and not just hope they "grow out of it"!
I worked with a disturbed kids inpatient group back in the early 1970s and we got some good results from early intervention. That type of behaviour is difficult to change much after 12 years of age.

We did have one 16 year old carted off by the police within two weeks of admission - it turned out he had murdered a woman a few months earlier.
We had been about to turn him out anyway as he was a destructive influence on the other kids.

Probably turning this into something far too serious (sorry DA) but did a quick google and found a report by your own government about the link...won't copy it as it's much too long and would most likely bore the ar5e off most people so here's a link to it for anyone that's interested.

http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/P ... 0001011042

Regards
JAS

Yeah i've read a link between animal torture leading to murder in later life, i think this applied to Jeffrey Dahmer, and i've read it about other killers as well.

7yrs old !!!!

Where were the parents.... he shouldn't have been out of their site, surely

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Geez I could never imagine my kids smashing lizards and feeding them to a croc...

Hell my kids are too scared to even go near my mum's bird, let alone a bloody croc.....

JAS wrote:Yep...the parents should be sued for sure...and I agree with the centre director...boot up the ar5e for the brat too.

I think the kid should be held responsible too...most 7 yo's would know that doing that to live animals is wrong especially as it says the he bludgoened three to death himself.

Regards
JAS

Oh crap, I didn't read that bit.

I take back the bit about it being funny.

And as for the parents not being able to control a 7 year old. He's 7 FFS, how hard can he be to control. Just throttle the little bastard until he behaves himself. Took my parents about 20 years, but the message has finally got through.

throw him in with the croc for a while!

A Mum wrote:7yrs old !!!!
Where were the parents.... he shouldn't have been out of their site, surely

I met a 7 year old who was admitted to our unit in the 1970s whose parents were in the habit of locking their bedroom door at night after they woke to find him chopping up the foot of their bed with a tomahawk in the midlle of the night. They also got rid of all such implements. Then one night they woke to find he had almost chopped through their bedroom door with another tomahawk he had picked up somewhere. That was how we got him!

He was in the unit about 18 months, and while he was abusive he was not violent. With time and tolerance the abusiveness settled too. He said "Hello" to me about 10 years later when he was working at a fruit stall in the Adelaide Central Market. As far as I know he never hurt man or beast after his stay with us....

You have to get in early. Unfortunately, I don't think any state in Australia provides facilities of that sort to do it anymore.

Psyber wrote:

A Mum wrote:7yrs old !!!!
Where were the parents.... he shouldn't have been out of their site, surely

I met a 7 year old who was admitted to our unit in the 1970s whose parents were in the habit of locking their bedroom door at night after they woke to find him chopping up the foot of their bed with a tomahawk in the midlle of the night. They also got rid of all such implements. Then one night they woke to find he had almost chopped through their bedroom door with another tomahawk he had picked up somewhere. That was how we got him!

He was in the unit about 18 months, and while he was abusive he was not violent. With time and tolerance the abusiveness settled too. He said "Hello" to me about 10 years later when he was working at a fruit stall in the Adelaide Central Market. As far as I know he never hurt man or beast after his stay with us....

You have to get in early. Unfortunately, I don't think any state in Australia provides facilities of that sort to do it anymore.

Sorry to go off topic...again

I recently heard that 50% of all cases going through our hospital emergency rooms are 'mental health' related... whether it be the person themself or a victim of a mental health 'act'

A Mum wrote:Sorry to go off topic...again
I recently heard that 50% of all cases going through our hospital emergency rooms are 'mental health' related... whether it be the person themself or a victim of a mental health 'act'

It is related "Mum", and believable..
Yes, since the various state governments decided in the 1980s that they could save big money closing the separate psychiatric hospitals, and long-stay accommodation, and big capital profits selling the land, there has been a huge spill-effect. The states' gaols have tended to become the new long stay accommodation for the chronically ill, along with the cheap boarding houses. The reformers ignored the fact that there will always be a few who cannot cope in society without support and perhaps some gentle supervision...