We need more kids like this (9 year old saves kitten from beating)

Jamarea Mills is my hero today.

http://blogs.catster.com/kitty-news-network/2011/06/02/boy-fights-off-bully-to-save-kitten-from-being-beaten-to-death/

Warning: video is a little disturbing, but the kitty’s okay in the end.

I’d put this in the Pit to RO about exactly what I think should happen to the little waste of skin who started this, but I’d rather focus on the good kid.

What the hell kind of a 12 year old just starts beating a kitten to death? Jesus.

A very messed up one. Animal torture/cruelty is a bad sign.

That’s one brave little kid!

I’m of the opinion that animal cruelty is bad in and of itself, whether or not it’s a sign of anything.

A future psychopathic serial killer.

Yay, Jamarea! Good on him for saving a life.

The 12-year-old needs psychiatric help NOW.

Also, I just watched the video, and I thought the ending part where the reporter is trying to show him a picture of the cat on his laptop was a little, er, poorly thought out. “Come look at a picture of this kitten in my windowless van, little boy…”

One damn good kid. :slight_smile:
One damn sick kid. :frowning:
One lucky kitteh. :cool:
Hopefully there’ll be a full-scale intervention in the sick kid’s behalf.

Heh. Well, given that there was clearly a cameraman hovering around behind, he probably thought it was safe to take a chance. :slight_smile:

Update: I am now very sad. It’s not easy to post links from my iPad when I’m in a hurry, but I was googling to see if anybody was doing anything nice for Jamarea and discovered that the poor little kitten has died.

:frowning: :frowning: :frowning:

Gah, totally not your fault but that just wrecked my day.

Sorry about that. Pretty much wrecked mine, too. :frowning:

I just pictured the little guy struggling to breathe because of (most likely) some waste of space punk.

It appears that Suffolk, Va., police are pursuing an animal cruelty charge against the older boy.

I hear they’re contemplating charging him as an adult. And I hope they do. I’m sorry, but I have zero sympathy for this little punk. 12 is old enough to know that this is wrong. Get him psychiatric help if he needs it, but keep him away from society until he’s capable of living in it.

While I agree, the fact that it is a sign means you can’t dismiss it as a kid doing something stupid. Any kid that does this is messed up in some way, and needs help. Yes, even if that help just means severe consequences for his actions. He’s only 12, so we still have a chance of getting through to him.

No comment from me, because I’ll only be called nasty names to say such things about someone who’s only a twelve year old child.

And no, at this point, I doubt we can “get through to him”.

Okay, so I commented, so sue me.

Oh god no! That little thing looked like my Maggie. Poor, poor kitten. That little boy though was a hero.

You’ll get no argument from me here. People who are cruel to animals are assholes. People who torture them like this are extra-special assholes. And in this situation, the kid’s most likely a sociopath. There’s very little you can do if that’s the case.

I’m gonna go and hug my kitties.

A nine year-old boy went up against someone older and larger armed with a knife? :eek:

That’s a very brave young man. Well done!