Indiana
Dad accused of forcing girl to kill pet cat:
Reason to Blow Up the World...
MUNCIE, Indiana (AP) -- 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.
The children told family members about the incident Monday, the day after the alleged killing, according to the affidavit. The children told police that their father was drunk when they arrived at his home and that he's a different person when he's sober, it said.
We're cat people here at News of Doom HQ so we take stories like this very personally. I wouldn't be held responsible for my actions if someone plunged a knife into one of my buddies. We're also parents so we can't understand what part of Collins' brain is missing that would make him do this. I don't buy the alcohol excuse because I've been drunk before and never wanted to make my kids kill a cat.
One point for trying to make your son do it, another point for actually making your daughter do it, another point for being a lousy drunk, another point for finishing the cat off yourself. That's four.
To get this ugly story out of your mind go to i can haz cheezburger.
This may make me bring back the Kitties of Doom section.
Nod of Doom to LiLO.
