Dad Accused of Forcing Girl to Kill Pet Cat

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Fri Mar-14-08 09:55 AM
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Dad Accused of Forcing Girl to Kill Pet Cat

Edited on Fri Mar-14-08 10:51 AM by frogcycle

Source: Comcast

A man was jailed Thursday on charges that he forced his 7-year-old daughter to kill the family cat by holding a knife in her hand and making her stab the pet.

Danield J. Collins, 39, told his children during a visit to his home Sunday that he wanted them to "learn how to kill" and gave his 11-year-old son a knife to do it, according to an affidavit filed in the case.

The boy tried to save the cat by hiding it under a sofa bed and putting ketchup on a knife when Collins went to the bathroom. But when the father realized that the cat was not dead, he forced his daughter to hold the knife and then held her hand tightly as he drove the knife into the animal, Muncie police Detective Jami Brown said.

Police said Collins stabbed and strangled the cat himself, and told his son to throw the dead pet in the trash. Officers retrieved the carcass to be used as evidence.

Edit for clarification, since, as usual, people tend to read between the lines and jump to conclusions (what else is new?):

I am NOT saying this guy was/is in the military. My entire point is that the referenced thread about the shooting of the 10-year-old is ranting on and on with little or no factual information, and making broad-brush condemnations of the military as a bunch of monsters. I grant that some scumbags are getting in to the military, whereas in saner times without bush's atrocity of a war that would be better controlled, BUT, the military is not CREATING monsters. Here is a prime example of someone completely fucked up in the head in Muncie Indiana. So why not condemn all of Muncie as a bunch of monsters?

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Just read the thread about the troops shooting the 10-year-old.

Understand something, people. The volunteer army is a sham. What once was what many of us still want it to be - an organization of highly patriotic individuals with a desire to defend the country, using force when necessary in the face of threats (with "a few bad apples" that it polices and eliminates asap) - has of necessity, due to bush's illegal war of aggression and brutal occupation, reduced recruiting standards time and again. People with criminal records are accepted, low-intelligence individuals are accepted, and, in all likelihood, people with the character of the guy in this article are accepted, because the flow of "good guys" into the service has diminished and the demand for more headcount has escalated.

I don't try to rationalize the killing of the 10-year-old; I wasn't there and accept that there is some remote possibility it was an honest error (people DO shoot the little old lady targets in the training exercises; it IS extremely difficult to make the right snap judgment every time). By the same token, I know there are assholes like this brute now in the service, and they are probably licking their chops for the chance to "plug somebody." When you recruit scumbags, you can train them to kill, and give them the equipment with which to do it, but you cannot train the scumbag-ness out of them.

People like this guy are unreconstructable and any sane society would eliminate them. Same goes for most of the hate crime perps. We are so fucked up we will eventually self destruct as a species.