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WOOD TV8 | Man Sentenced for Abusing Family Cat
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, cat, cruelty, sentencing, brutality, law, crippling )

Raffi
- 86 days ago - woodtv.com
The Muskegon Heights man charged with beating his family cat was sentenced Monday and will spend anywhere from 18 months to six years in prison. The incident happened at around 10 p.m. July 6 at his home, near Harrison Boulevard and Airline Road.
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Many Idahoans Are Eager to Shoot Wolves
Society & Culture  (tags: society, culture, violence, hunting, wolf, idaho, wolves, endangered, slaughter, sadness, suffering, hunters, extinction, environment, animals, animalcruelty, abuse, cruelty, killing, law, wildanimals, wildlife, death, protection )

Tom
- 89 days ago - islandparknews.net
Idaho Fish and Game (IDFG) said statewide more than 2,000 wolf killing permits were sold in the first hour and a half after going on sale Monday. By Tuesday morning, more than 5,100 tags had been sold, with about 2 percent going to out-of-state hunters.
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Teen Gets 18 Months for Roasting Kitten - UPI.Com
Society & Culture  (tags: police, crime, kitten, murder, brutality, activists, cruelty, New York, sentence, law )

Raffi
- 106 days ago - upi.com
A 14-year-old New York girl was sentenced to 18 months in a juvenile facility for putting a kitten in an oven and leaving it to roast alive, officials said. The New York Law Department said Whitney B. pleaded guilty to burglary and animal cruelty
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Clarke's Rodeo Stance Receives Seal of Approval
Society & Culture  (tags: rodeos, ethics, animals, cruelty, award, compassion )

Raffi
- 144 days ago - smh.com.au
MORE public figures such as Gold Coast Mayor Ron Clarke should speak out against rodeos to raise awareness of their cruelty, says animal protection group Animals Australia. Cr Clarke said in The Sun-Herald this month he thought rodeos were
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When Words Can Kill: 'That's So Gay'
Society & Culture  (tags: society, abuse, verbal abuse, cruelty, bullying, freedoms, rights, safety, education, sadness )

Dee
- 224 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover was only 11-- hardly old enough to know his sexuality and yet distraught enough to hang himself last week after school bullies repeatedly called him "gay."
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Sign Petition: Help Ensure Justice for Family Pets Shot to Death!
Society & Culture  (tags: society, culture, crime, abuse, animals, pets, children, violence, sadness, politics, family, death, cruelty, suffering, sadness )

Tom
- 225 days ago - animalrights.change.org
A man came home one morning, rounded up the six family pets and, one by one, allegedly shot them to death, reportedly in front of his own children. He has been charged with multiple crimes, but faces only misdemeanor animal cruelty charges for the deaths.
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Lion Meat for Sale on Internet: Animal Rights Groups Fume
Society & Culture  (tags: animals, lions, lion meat, animalwelfare, animalcruelty, cruelty, extinction, endangered, humans, protection, wildanimals, wildlife, ethics, sadness )

Frankie
- 233 days ago - capeargus.co.za
Cape Argus: animal welfare groups are outraged that a US company is offering lion steaks and lion loin chops for sale through the internet. Read full story here.
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Maximum Sentence for Stepfather in Death of Girl
Society & Culture  (tags: child abuse, torture, death, crime, child neglect, cruelty )

Nancy
- 600 days ago - nytimes.com
Nixzmary's stepdad gets 26 1/3 - 29 years in prison. Years of torture & suffering ended for the 7 yr. old the night he beat her "with particular severity," admitted holding her head under "running water and left her naked and moaning on the floor."
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'Slave' Made to Swim With Piranhas
Society & Culture  (tags: italy, circus, girls, slaves, forced, swim with piranhas, snakes, cruelty, sadness )

Jacquelin
- 609 days ago - news.com.au
POLICE have rescued two teenage sisters from a circus in southern Italy which forced one of them to swim with flesh-eating piranhas for the audience's amusement. While the 19-year-old sister swam in a transparent tank, the younger, 16-year-old was forc
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Peaceable Kingdom: Journey Home Trailer WATCH VIDEO   video
Society & Culture  (tags: environment, ethics, death, diet, disease, health, interesting, news, nutrition, prevention, protection, safety, society, treatment, warning, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animalrights, animals, cruelty, death, rescued, slaughter, killing, society, s )

Echo
- 662 days ago - youtube.com
Perfect time to watch this, sad but a very "feel good" featurettte too! Documentary due out some time in 2008, by Tribe of Heart, same who made The Witness. CHECK IT OUT and DONT MISS IT!
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Dolphin Hunt Sags Amid Mercury Fears - EarthLink - International News
Society & Culture  (tags: killing, ethics, wildlife, sadness, killed, crime, cruelty, death, dolphins, japan, mercury, poison, good news, humans, AnimalWelfare )

Thunderr
- 664 days ago - my.earthlink.net
Every autumn and winter,hunters from this craggy Japanese fishing village corral thousands of dolphins into a tiny,isolated cove and kill them for meat and fertilizer,turning the water red with their blood.And every year,foreign animal rights protesters
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Children for Sale: UK's New Slave Trade - VIDEO
Society & Culture  (tags: african children, sold by parents, slave trade, britain, crime, cruelty, children, exploited, harmed, investigations )

Simone
- 667 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Hundreds of young children are being sold and "trafficked" to Britain from Africa to be exploited as modern-day slaves, it can be revealed. The illicit trade in children - sold by their parents, some while still babies, to criminal gangs and people
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Man Tortures Child, Removes Skin With Hot Oil and Hair Dryer
Society & Culture  (tags: baby torturer, crime, violence, police, children, abuse, suffering, cruelty, scum )

Simone
- 690 days ago - shortnews.com
A Florida man is accused of dousing a 17-month-old child with hot cooking oil and then using a hot air dryer to remove the baby's skin, all in order to keep the baby from crying. According to records, Darlanne Toussaint, poured hot cooking oil on the
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The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam   video
Society & Culture  (tags: Islam, Women, Violence, Oppression, Torture, Death, Religion, Religious, Madness, Muhammad, Allah, Inhumane, Cruelty, Delusional, Theology, Abuse, Brutal, Fascist, Dictatorship, Force, Evil, Unjust, Human, Children, Rights, Men )

Nick
- 749 days ago - youtube.com
Warning! Graphic Video. Viewers discretion advised. This film accurately depicts the dehumanizing theology, brutal abuse, and degredation that comprise the daily lives of millions of women in the fascist portions of the Islamic world...
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Man Uses Starved Dog as a Piece of ART!! Sign the Petition!!
Society & Culture  (tags: arts, society, violence, death, abuse, animalsuffering, cruelty, dog, neglect, scum, torture, suffering, AnimalCruelty, killed )

Rebecca
- 772 days ago - marcaacme.com
An "artist" from Costa Rica, named Guillermo Habacuc Vargas, put a starved dog as a work of art. The dog died and the man was selected to represent his country in the "Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008". Sign the petition in the comment section!!
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