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19-Year-Old Charged in Death of Cuddles the Kitten


Animals  (tags: abused kitten, burnt, tortured, 19 year old, charged, scum, animal cruelty )

Simone
- 159 days ago - philly.com
Police have arrested a teenager who is accused of trying to set a kitten on fire in Chester on Saturday. The 6-week-old kitten, nicknamed Cuddles by the animal-control officer who rescued it, died Monday. Rishawn Levintino Morrison, 19, of the
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Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (274)
Friday October 9, 2009, 11:25 am
I an horrified.. this is disgusting.. I hope they hang this stuffing bastard... and set him alight... he is a serial killer in the making, if he can do this worse things are to come.. He is a realsicko
 

Tiffany L. (1)
Friday October 9, 2009, 12:26 pm
willingly and purposely causing harm to animals = mental instability and a predisposition for future crimes against animals and people.
 

Annie Cowling (55)
Friday October 9, 2009, 1:38 pm
Very evil boy. I wonder what his parents have taught him. I pray for the day everyone values life to all beings, like our family on care2! Thank-you Simone, rest with the Angels peacefully Cuddles.
 

Maggie M. (59)
Friday October 9, 2009, 4:46 pm
So sad and very scary that someone has the capability to do this to a living thing.
 

Past Member (0)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 10:31 am
If he is proven guilty: death penalty.
 

Arielle S. (123)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 10:31 am
I'm with you, Chaz - tie him up and set him on fire. Rid the world of one more creepy, cruel monster.
 

Susan P. (17)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 11:13 am
Perhaps getting some prison time will teach him about abuse from the other end of the stick - I hope the other prisoners will teach him a good lesson!
 

Kristi K. (1989)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 11:26 am
I am so sick of hearing about this senseless cruelty. Courts need to take this more seriously and award stiffer sentences.
 

Geri Fowler (3)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 11:53 am
The punishment needs to be equal. He is obviously a very sick boy and needs a good severe punishment before he goes on to do worse.
 

Past Member (0)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 11:59 am
Chaz, to me there are no worse things than this.
 

Lisa Koehl (43)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 12:33 pm
I agree with everyone. He is one sick demented monster and will do far worse things if given half a chance. Dispose of this trash by burning it!!!!
 

Mike K. (50)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 12:53 pm
he is deffinitly not a child ,i hope that this creep gets time out of this and he has balls enuff to be put i general public,there are a lot of animal lovers in jail,i just hope that he runnes into 10 or 20 of these gental cons,good luck scum bag!
 

darla h. (3)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 1:47 pm
This screwed up person will get a slap on the wrist,so he can repeat his crulity toward other animals.He needs to be hung in a tree and beatened and burned to the point he will never be able to hurt anyone or anything again.
 

eileen k. (1)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 1:50 pm
The vast majority of serial killers began their infamous careers by torturing/killing animals such as cats/dogs. This scumbag's no exception. If nothing's done about this heinous act now, he'll be targeting children within ten years, Stick him in prison with the general population, where animal loving peers will kick his ass.
 

eileen k. (1)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 1:55 pm
If this monster gets what he deserves, he may get the Jeffrey Dahlmer treatment. Remember that monster, the one who targeted young boys, tortured and killed them? Well, he eventually got his juist desserts at the hands of a fellow prisoner, who beat him to death.
 

Mary D. (14)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 1:59 pm
What a big, brave guy that cat killer was. A tiny kitten threatened his life, so he killed it. Why didn't he pick on someone his own size? He deserves the punishment that the ancient Romans used to give: Put him unarmed and naked in a big arena with the biggest carnivore we can find. (And I don't mean man!)
 

Dian W. (0)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 2:21 pm
The sentence needs to be WAY more severe!
and the FINE also needs to be WAY MORE SEVERE!
Or, we could just kill him and help solve the "overpopulation problem"
I kinda like the "hang him up by his balls and burn him" idea...
Let him see what it feels like....
 

Past Member (0)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 2:26 pm
I agree Mike, there are a lot of animal lovers in jail. I've never been in one myself (other than visiting) but I hear about it and I always assume it because most inmates, especially among the women , are themselves survivors of child abuse and neglect. And we often turn out huge animal lovers, not haters, as some people often assume. That is also the only satisfaction I get when I hear for example of the 17 year old girl in NY who was sentenced to only one year prison for baking a cat. There are ovens in prison. And one year is a long, long time if you are locked up with hopefully a bunch of animal lovers and are not a celebrity like M. Vick.
 

florencia d. (0)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 3:44 pm
itīs really sad that out there there are people that can do something like that....no forgiveness.
 

Carol K. (7)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 4:42 pm
waste the no good sick coward
 

Maria G. (24)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 6:15 pm
Lets do eye for an eye and see how the teenager likes it.
 

darla h. (0)
Sunday October 11, 2009, 7:14 pm
This little son of a you know what should be held accountable for this death!!!! A baby kitten abused??? Hard for me to belive that anyone could harm a baby of any animal/human etc!!! That 19 year old should go to jail as if he killed a human being!! Once we start treating abuse as abuse we will see a difference.Respect Life!!!! Learn it or go to jail along time!!!! Darla
 

Ancil S. (61)
Monday October 12, 2009, 12:24 am
Totally unspeakable!! What a horrid,wretched,rancid little boy. Poor little kitten,I just am speechless!
 

Helen D. (13)
Monday October 12, 2009, 7:54 am
First it is senseless animal abuse then it it murdering people.
I hope he gets the same treatment he gave the cat... and more!
 

leta r. (1)
Monday October 12, 2009, 9:14 am
That teenager would have probably gone on to torture kids...animals are usually early targets of terribly sick and abused people. I believe he needs to be kept out of society. He needs psychiatric treatment, though this kind of personality, in my experience, usually develops from having been terribly abused early on in his own life. Revenge, called 'punishment' in our society, perpetuates the sickness...it's extremely difficult and takes a long course of treatment to cure such a deranged personality, if at all possible..
 

leta r. (1)
Monday October 12, 2009, 9:21 am
There is no way that giving this man the same treatment he got when he was young, and/or the same treatment he gave that kitten, will 'teach him ' any thing other than the biggest person has more power. I'm not sure he's curable. best to lock him up where he cannot harm others. Most of us have no idea what goes on in the minds of abused. tortured, young people.
 

Jamie Clemons (160)
Monday October 12, 2009, 10:54 am
OMG poor cat. We used to have a cat named Cuddles and I still miss her.
 

Mary Ann B. (0)
Monday October 12, 2009, 11:01 am
Where are all these people coming from? It seems everyday there is news of humans hurting animals. This makes me ashamed of my species - or certain elements of it.
Fire is an very painful way to die. Did this kid not even think how burning would feel for the poor kitten? I hope this person is never allowed near another animal again.
 

Jana Zajicova (2)
Monday October 12, 2009, 1:57 pm
I canīt believe...whoīre you, people? Death- penalty...hang him...I also DO love animals, even have some, but - havenīt you got any idea that guy maybe need HELP rather than any sentence??? THIS is sad...
 

Daiana L. (2)
Wednesday October 14, 2009, 10:44 am
God! deserves the worst the world a monster like that.
 
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