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Case ID: 15291
Classification: Kicking/Stomping
Animal: cat
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Kitten beaten, stomped - back broken
Deception Bay, QLD (AU)

Incident Date: Sunday, Mar 1, 2009

Disposition: Alleged

Alleged:
» juvenile
» juvenile

Police have been shocked by the callous murder of a kitten at Deception Bay north of Brisbane.

About 10pm yesterday a four-month-old kitten was taken for its owner's property in Airlie Avenue by two youths, aged about 17 and 14.

Police have alleged one of the youths then used a stick or a branch to hit the cat, breaking its back.

As it lay crying in a driveway, the other teenager returned and stomped on its head to kill it.

The animal's body was then thrown into another yard, where it was found by police and the distraught owners last night.

Officer-in-charge of Deception Bay police station, Senior Sergeant Trevor Crawford said in his 30 years as a police officer it was the most disturbing animal cruelty case he had seen.

The kitten's owner who did not want to be named said they had only had the cat for a couple of weeks after rescuing it from some boys who were "throwing it around".

"It was the most playful little kitten. My six-year-old daughter just loved it. I haven't told her what happened. I just said its owner had reclaimed it," the woman said.

"I've no idea why these boys did it. I still can't believe it. I'm shaking just thinking about it."

RSPCA spokesman Michael Beatty said it was a shocking act of animal cruelty and he hoped the courts would impose a suitable penalty.

"We need to send a message this sort of behaviour won't be tolerated. It can't be treated as a misdemeanour. The courts must record a conviction," he said.

"Perhaps the magistrates can order the offenders to get some psychiatric help otherwise you're just grooming them to do the same to a person down the track."

Police were still making enquiries into the whereabouts of the alleged offenders but were confident of an arrest in the near future.

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