would you make your child kill their pet as punishment

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   bonny2010posted 15 years ago

   Saw on the news some mother made her son kill his hamster with a hammer as punishment for poor grades.

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      Mark Knowlesposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Did his grades improve?

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         kirstenblogposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         I don't care how old this post is, I just read it and Mark, you have warped my fragile little mind! 
         

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      rebekahELLEposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      sic. who are these sic people.
      
      being a teacher, I've taught kids from both sides of the fence, the best and the worst. one thing they have in common, their parents want their children to succeed in school. it is sad with both extremes pressuring their children.

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      cosetteposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      omg what a sick twisted f****ing idiot. is that woman in prison? i hope so, err...!

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      Teddletonmrposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      What mother in her right mind would instruct her child or any other for that matter to Kill anything much less the Kid's pet?
      I ask, where did the mother learn or get this idea from?

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      SandyMcCollumposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      omgosh that's just awful!!! She should be hit with a hammer....

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      Ohmaposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      This women is seriously un-stable my heart aches for this poor child. I hope she is charged with child endangerment, mental cruelty, animal cruelty, and anything else they can find to throw at her. My God what a horrid thing to do!

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      Cagsilposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Anyone forcing a child to kill an animal, especially their own pet, because they did something wrong is completely out of line, cruel and a pathetic attempt at being parents.
      
      That's completely absurd.

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      vox vocisposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      A mother one could only wish for...

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      Chrysoprasusposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      WHAT??!! That is completely cruel. I don't the hamster is somekinda destruction to his child. Poor innocent hamster...

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       Lucky Catsposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       This says not to post because the topic is over 2 months old....WHAT!!!!! This is a sick situation which needs all the attention we can give it.  Of course a parent should NOT instruct an impressionable child to kill his/her pet...or any animal!  The parent who does this should be jailed FOR LIFE!  How insane are humans? have we all gone MAD!!!?

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       Stevennix2001posted 14 years agoin reply to this

       you know something. some people should NOT ever had kids.  Ever.

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          Just Ask Susanposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          I totally agree with you Steven. Just think what this would do to the child's mind....having their parent make them kill a pet!  Too warped!

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          Tammy Lposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          I agree with you, Steven.   Stupid people shouldn't breed...it's bad enough for a child to see his or her beloved pet get hit by a car but to have Mommy Dearest force him or her to kill an animal (who had nothing to do with the offense in question) is just absolutely insane.

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   shinujohn2008posted 15 years ago

   That will make the child turn into a criminal with psychological problems, the child will enjoy seeing loved ones die in pain.

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      NewYorkerposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      No, that's not really what it would do.
      
      The kid might get a kick out of killing small creatures, start moving on to bigger animals; dogs, cats and etc., and eventually the child would end up with killing it's first human being. The child (most likely an adult now) would probably get a huge kick out of killing someone so big and complex, and ladies and gentlemen, we have the birth of a serial killer. Classic, textbook example.
      
      OR
      
      The kid starts seeing his mom as a threat and will eventually hate her.

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         bonny2010posted 15 years agoin reply to this

         the mother went to jail or so I heard reckon she will get her come upperance in there - don't think she will geet the kid back, but who knows

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            NewYorkerposted 15 years agoin reply to this

            She's probably not getting her child back; it has very traumatizing effect on children to have to kill their own animal, since children always form special bonds with their animals, they become 'friends', and the mother obviously had some psychological problems. I hope for this child's well being that she won't get him back.

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   theirishobserver.posted 15 years ago

   Yes if my name was Krugger Freddie Krugger

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      bonny2010posted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Irish go eat your Leprechaun hamburger- i hated that movie gave this old geezer nightmares.

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   wordscribe41posted 15 years ago

   It reminds me of the Elizabeth Smart case.  Evidently, the woman who co-kidnapped her was very mentally ill.  Her children were often deprived of food, etc...  One night one of the daughters came home and was pleasantly surprised to smell something wonderful cooking.  She asked her mother what was for dinner, to which her mom replied:  "Chicken."  The children all sat down to eat and noticed their parents just scooting around their chicken on the plates, not eating it and focusing solely on the salad.  The next morning the daughter went to get her rabbit from its cage... No rabbit.  Bloody Hell.

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      bonny2010posted 15 years agoin reply to this

      back in the sixties a mother apparantly served her her baby up as a baked dinner to her husband - she was quickly certified.

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         mythbusterposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Got more details on this?

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   Justine76posted 15 years ago

   This entire thred is horrifying.

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      bonny2010posted 15 years agoin reply to this

      i agree sorry  but the bottom line is - too many mothers with problems slip through the net and the victim is always the child

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         tantrumposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         and what about the hamster ? He's dead !!

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            NewYorkerposted 15 years agoin reply to this

            Yes, let's worry about the hamster, not the child who will never trust an adult human being again.

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               bonny2010posted 15 years agoin reply to this

               maybe, just maybe, sometime in the distant future and with the right counselling he will overcome these obstacles

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   AnythingArtzyposted 15 years ago

   we surely live in a sick world.

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      bonny2010posted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Nope its just not a perfect world

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   sneakorocksolidposted 15 years ago

   That mother is no mother and should not be allowed to raise kids.

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   sophsposted 15 years ago

   That's just digusting, she's clearly sick in the head. What person in their right mind would make a child do this, for any reason, let alone just because he got bad grades. There are too many people of this sort it the world, it saddens me :-(

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   janiek13posted 15 years ago

   God, no! Who does that? what a psychopath!

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    Chloe Comfortposted 15 years ago

    Absolutely NOT
    
    Might make him clean out the poopy cage each day though

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    Mishaposted 15 years ago

    Definitely there are some sick people around

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    prettydarkhorseposted 15 years ago

    scary

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    AEvansposted 15 years ago

    Absolutely NOT! That is completely insane and would scar a child for life. His/Her mom was evil and did not have any feelings for life itself!

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    wychicposted 15 years ago

    Oh yes, let's teach children early that other lives can be extinguished at our whim because of our own problems. Better yet, let's teach them that killing is easy and could even be satisfying...this sounds like a wonderful idea...
    
    Yikes...and people wonder why so many children have violence issues and crime rates continue to rise. The hamster had a quick death, will everyone the kid kills in his life get one too?

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       NateSeanposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Blows the whole video game argument clear out of the water doesn't it?

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          wychicposted 15 years agoin reply to this

          Yeah...I've got to say, I really don't buy into this whole "video games are making kids violent" thing except inasmuch as kids are disconnecting from reality as a whole, and video games can be one of the avenues for that if their parents aren't doing their job in making sure it stays balanced with the rest of life. However, I can definitely support the "mommy made me smash my hamster's head and made me violent" argument because that's not a reality disconnect...that's a parent bringing the violence into reality, and not only allowing it, but endorsing and requiring it.

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    weblogposted 15 years ago

    Huh?

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    Whitney05posted 15 years ago

    And, she's in jail from it. It happened in GA. It was crazy.

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    Dale Mazurekposted 15 years ago

    This is absolutely right up there at the top of the list of some of the sickest things I have ever heard.
    
    I guess in some ways we shouldnt be surprised with everything that goes on in society.
    
    My wife and I stopped watching the news for reasons just like this.  It seems that you never see a feel good story.
    
    All I can say is I hope they take great care in helping the child to understand this wasnt his or her fault. 
    
    Without the proper care this child is headed for disaster.  Having to kill their pet and now no mother.
    
    Yep focus and lots of it needs to be on the child right now and not down the road when its too late.

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    TheCreditTruthposted 15 years ago

    I don't see anyway that isn't child abuse.

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    StormRyderposted 15 years ago

    This is horrific! That poor child.

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    libby101aposted 14 years ago

    This is an act of abuse by this Mother! First this child is going to have serious psychological issues! Teaching your child to inflict pain on a poor defenseless animal because of your own faults is going to instill pain and torture into this child's psyche.
    
    I hope this child was taken from this home and placed with someone who actually cares about him or her. And I hope the child gets proper psychological help!

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    mrfluffyposted 14 years ago

    Some people really need an attitude adjustment, i have heard some awful things in my time but that parent gets the biscuit.

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    Joe Badtoeposted 14 years ago

    it gets worse
    
    hamster was just the nickname of the father.

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    sofsposted 14 years ago

    The sad state of human values.. I wonder where we are going..

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       radenscott24posted 14 years agoin reply to this

       I think the mother should be stoned to death for making they child do such things... That is just awful.... I think Dss should step in of things like that instead of taking good kids from good parents like they do here....

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    Maria Ceciliaposted 14 years ago

    No I think that's barbaric

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    klarawieckposted 14 years ago

    Some people should not breed!

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       Greek Oneposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       i haven't heard that since my night club days

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          klarawieckposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          You obviously didn't listen!

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             Greek Oneposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             I heard what they said.. I just kept 'plugging' along...
             
             law of averages

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    Hotplateposted 14 years ago

    Not that it makes this horrible thing any better, but how did she make him kill it?

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       sabrinaaqposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       it says with a hammer....that is terrible though what an evil mother!!!

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          Hotplateposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          So who gets to hit HER with a hammer now?

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             Castlepalomaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             That is the sickest pet thing I’ve ever heard since they were going to serve up and dine on dogs for the athlete at the Soul Olympic,
             
             But, did it improve her grades (just Kidding)

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                Diane Insideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                Sounds like the makings of a serial killer to me.

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                   Castlepalomaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                   At what level of an animal’s intelligence and emotions can we eat them or have them as pets, when buying at a meat market?
                   
                   I saw hamsters cooked on a stick in many downtown centre parks in many towns in South America. I saw the movie Babe, No farm animal had gotten harmed in the making of this movie, but they ate 3 of them,
                   
                   Personally prefer very low amounts of meat eating.

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    Toby Hansenposted 14 years ago

    What a sick, twisted can't-write-it-or-will-get-banned-for-life!
    This woman is need of some serious medication. At least.
    I have qualms in assuming that this took place somewhere in the US.
    
    This is why I prefer the company of my animals over that of most people.

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       Castlepalomaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       I already said it was sick and the person in medication is not this forum, it was on the news.
       
       I do not support torture, capital punishment and find no reason for killing man or animal unless suffering is too long and great; I said I was kidding and sometime humor or even sometime sick humor releases pressure off of people who become too serious and making things worst.
       
       Lighten up!
       
       I even wish to get off eating meat all together. Yet...
       
       Have you ever heard the cries of the screaming lettuce?

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    kids-toy-boxposted 14 years ago

    Thats just disgusting..killing a hamster won't improve grades...perhaps she should spend the time being a better parent.Responsiilty goes before reward...if the kid was taught this he would act it out.

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    Jo Deslaurierposted 14 years ago

    That mother should be prosecuted for animal abuse or put in a mental institution. The child should be placed with relatives and given counseling. That is a seriously twisted story.

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       Castlepalomaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Some of these comment is out of context, half of them I could allow my conscious say to another human being, even concerning this situation
       
       She should be hit with a hammer....
       Charged with child endangerment, mental cruelty, animal cruelty, and anything else they can find to throw at
       Should be jailed FOR LIFE!  How insane are humans?
       Some people should NOT ever had kids
       Make the child turn into a criminal
       We have the birth of a serial killer.
       Yes if my name was Krugger  Freddie Krugger 
       That mother is no mother and should not be allowed to raise kids.
       God, no! Who does that? What a psychopath!
       That is completely insane. His/Her mom was evil and did not have any feelings for life itself!
       Let's teach them that killing is easy and could even be satisfying
       Blows the whole video game argument clear out of the water doesn't it?
       Having to kill their pet and now no mother.
       The sad state of human values... I wonder where we are going...
       I think the mother should be stoned to death for making they child do such things...
       Some people should not breed!
       So who gets to hit HER with a hammer now?
       This woman is need of some serious medication.
       That mother should be prosecuted for animal abuse or put in a mental institution. The child should be placed with relatives and given counseling.
       
       These priorities may be considered out of whack to the below priorities comments
       
       I do not support torture; capital punishment and find FOR no reason in killing man or animal except for food or maybe the kindness of Euthanasia can be given to our fellow man as we do for our pet.
       
       Imagine if the same passion was direct to this mother killing a hamster as it to the 900,000 Iraqi (Iraqi claim) death fought on their soil. No Iraqi has been proven to kill one American on American soil. I believe there would be no Iraq war and much greater health to our natural environment. Not harming anyone or creature is godlike in my eyes,  it’s really only the behavior that counts not so much the words.

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          Vanarambaionposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          Let's keep this on topic.  It's about a mother ordering her son to smash a hamster with a hammer, not about throwing out absurd numbers in an unrelated war.

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             Castlepalomaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             Van
             
             It was one post related by priority of all living animals.
             
             Absurd numbers,
             
             I dare you to say that to Iraqi children, Mothers and their families, where pets would be an extreme luxury.

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    sunny5555posted 14 years ago

    Before you know it she might order him to cut people's fingers, toes, maybe cut the dogs head off. Make any child or my own kill an animal for punishment? HELL NO

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    Mighty Momposted 14 years ago

    I suppose it could have been worse. The child's pet could have been a horse.

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       Castlepalomaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       I guess a hamster does not have the same effect as a horse dose between your legs.

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    paradigmsearchposted 14 years ago

    NO, SHUT THIS THREAD DOWN.

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       Castlepalomaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       please do, it makes me sick

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    Jaynie2000posted 14 years ago

    WTF? This is disturbing stuff. The mom in this case is horrendously abusive and sounds like a budding serial killer or something. If nothing else, she's going to be raising one. What kind of sick twist even thinks about such a thing, let alone does it? What a freak! She should have her kids taken away and be forced into a treatment program.

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    mythbusterposted 14 years ago

    I would hope that the mother and son both receive come quality counselling to overcome whatever has been happening in their lives.

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    Eternal Evolutionposted 14 years ago

    OMG that is crule and not just to the animal but also to the child. This is horrible!

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    paradigmsearchposted 14 years ago

    I thought we had shut this stupid thing down...

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       mega1posted 14 years agoin reply to this

       exactly!  who keeps bringing this stupid thread back?  it is soooooo offensive!!!

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