Hi all;

In putting together posts for WAV, you learn quite a lot.

One thing that has been interesting me lately is the issue of children who abuse animals during their childhood have been shown (by lots of research) to often progress more into domestic offenders, sexual offenders, women beaters / abusers, and serial killers and murderers of humans.

Unfortunately, in the past this link between the two has been largely overlooked by persons in authority; ie. those who can make a difference; when in fact, realisation, earlier intervention and acceptance of ‘something (weirder) being there’ by these very same may in some cases have stopped things getting more out of hand.

Obviously; not every person who abuses animals has committed or will commit other crimes. But harming people is statistically more likely when animal cruelty is previously involved. So, animal cruelty must be taken seriously.

Here are a few things to contemplate:

• Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, of the Columbine High School shooting, bragged about mutilating animals to their classmates.

• Kip Kinkel, before his attack on Thurston High School parents and students, blew up cows and decapitated cats.

• Luke Woodham, who murdered his mother and two schoolmates at Pearl High School, wrote in his journal about setting his dog Sparkle on fire.

• “Animal abuse is often the first sign of serious disturbance among adolescent and adult killers,” Gail F. Melson, professor emerita of developmental studies at Purdue University, wrote in Psychology Today.

• Domestic violence survivors have reported in studies that their abusers threatened to kill, torture, or otherwise harm their companion animals — or actually followed through on the threats — to prevent them from leaving their abusive situations.

• 88% of families surveyed that had incidents of child abuse also had incidents of animal abuse.

• 63% of children entering shelters admitted to incidents of pet abuse in their families.

• More than 80% of families being treated for child abuse reported animal abuse in their homes.

• Engaging in sex with animals is actually legal in four states — Wyoming, Hawaii, New Mexico, and West Virginia — and the District of Columbia. In more than 20 states, bestiality (sex with an animal) is only a misdemeanor crime.

Above references:  The Startling Link Between Animal Cruelty and Human Abuse [UPDATED 2020] (ladyfreethinker.org)

• Jeffrey Dahmer, the “Milwaukee cannibal” who dismembered 17 people three decades ago had first practiced his butchery by cutting up dogs and cats and impaling their heads on sticks.

• Ian Brady, the (UK) Moors murderer who tortured and killed five children in the 1960s, boasted of killing his first cat when he was just 10, and went on to burn another cat alive, stone dogs and cut off rabbits’ heads before going on to target people.

• Robert Thompson and Jon Venables (UK) would shoot pigeons with air rifles and tie rabbits to railway lines to watch them be run over – until in 1993 they killed toddler James Bulger.

Above references: The link is established between serial killers and animal cruelty | The Independent | The Independent  

• Childhood cruelty to animals can be an early warning of a propensity for violence against other people, a report published yesterday said.

Above reference: Childhood cruelty to animals may signal violence in future | UK news | The Guardian

• Many infamous serial killers harmed animals when they were children, including Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Gary Ridgeway, John Wayne Gacy, and the Boston Strangler. It’s long been a popularly held belief that children who are abusive toward animals are serial killers in the making. 

• If there is a trait in the triad that’s especially concerning, it may be animal abuse. This behaviour is a well-established early indicator of future assault, murder, rape, partner abuse and child abuse. Again, not all kids who harm animals will go on to hurt people — but some will.
• Research has revealed that 25 percent of aggressive inmates had committed multiple acts of animal abuse as children. Forty-five percent of school shooters had histories of alleged animal cruelty, and 21 percent of serial murderers admitted to childhood animal abuse. 

Above references: Are Kids Who Abuse Animals Destined to Become Serial Killers? | Discover Magazine

• Psychologists point to harming animals as proof of a lack of empathy. Such behavior also indicates a propensity towards aggression. While there isn’t any hard data claiming the percentage of infamous offenders who began their career of pain by hurting animals, many believe that this is a serious warning sign.
• Many of these offenders have admitted that harming animals was the first time they realized that they liked to cause suffering and, in fact, wanted to hurt people. Often neighborhood cats, dogs, and even crabs were the earliest victims of these menacing childhood “games,” which often led to painful demises. One notorious offender even began targeting animals after seeing his father do the same.

Above references:

Serial Killers Who Also Abused Animals (ranker.com)

Also:  The Scariest Serial Killers in History (ranker.com)

So, I hope that the above justifies my argument with the link a little bit.

Referring to a recent article published on this (WAV) site:

(CN) Cat Torture Groups – Many Participants Are Shown To Be Minors – Disturbing ! – World Animals Voice

“This is a worrying development, but no surprise really. It reinforces what was said earlier, that youthful individuals engaging in animal abuse pose a high threat to Humans in adult life. A taste for cruelty developed in early life, and at a time when a personality is impressionable and as yet to be formed, tends to take firm hold, and influence a person’s conduct in later life”.

“This is why the activity of these “Cat Torture Rings” is so dangerous, and must be dealt with severely – they must be destroyed wherever they are found. Once and for all”.

“Young kids of school age appear to be the primary members of many of these groups. As we have said before, and it is shown many times over, people often start as animal killers and then move on to being human killers. SO WHAT IS CHINA ACTUALLY DOING ABOUT THIS ? – Very little it appears”.

Further, here in the UK, and again as published on this (WAV) site recently:

UK: Society Is Getting Sicker All The Time – Children Using Catapults To Kill And Torture Animals Before Sharing ‘Sick’ Images On WhatsApp.

“It is getting worrying now – animals killers go on to kill humans”. FACT

“Children using catapults to kill and torture animals before sharing ‘sick’ images on WhatsApp”.

“A Sky News investigation finds hundreds of members of catapult groups on WhatsApp, where pictures and videos of animals killed or injured with the weapons are shared”.

“The youngsters – including some of primary school age – have been sharing footage and photos of their kills in groups on the messaging app.

In some videos, injured animals are shown dying slowly after being shot with hand-held catapults.

Sky News has discovered 489 members – including young children, teenagers and some young adults – across 11 catapult groups on WhatsApp”.

“In one video shared on a group, a deer lies twitching on the ground, severely injured with a head wound, having just been shot with a catapult by a child.

The young person who attacked the deer then stands over the animal while bringing a hand-held catapult in front of the camera for viewers to see”.

We say that the written word is mightier than the gun.  Here we attempt to let the written word speak.

How many videos are uploaded to YouTube every day? Around 3.7m new videos are uploaded to YouTube every day – that’s around 271,330 hours of video content based on an average length of 4.4 minutes.

As of now, approximately 34 million videos are posted on TikTok every day

Over 1 billion messages are sent on WhatsApp every day.

Call me a liar for sure if you wish; but I suggest that neither YouTube, WhatsApp or Tik Tok, despite what they say, have any real control over what is published daily on their sites. 

If they did have controls in place; then why are we reporting this:  https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2024/03/31/uk-society-is-getting-sicker-all-the-time-children-using-catapults-to-kill-and-torture-animals-before-sharing-sick-images-on-whatsapp/ 

Or, by showing and allowing such communications, are we saying that WhatsApp are perfectly supportive of animal abuse and cruelty being shown on their site ?

Sky News has discovered nearly 500 members of catapult groups on WhatsApp, in which more than 350 photos and videos have been shared of animals that have been killed or wounded with the weapons.

They will say they don’t condone animal abuse – so the question is, why are they allowing it to be shown by such groups on their sites ?

Organisations such as these have a massive responsibility to control what is being shown on their sites.  As said, with the huge quantities of uploads each day it is just not physically possible to control what is going on.  So what is the driving force with these which allow this uncontrolled mass relay of abusive data to be beamed around the globe each day ? – can I suggest ‘money’ ?

Until we see more action by CEO’s etc of these organisations to actually do as they preach – that is taking action and taking down such sites; are we moving each day to a more frenzied; anti social; abusive; don’t give a damn as long as I get ‘likes’ situation.  When will these sites be just as abusive as the dark web in allowing footage that currently shows kittens having screws driven into their eye sockets and their nostrils as the norm ?

Through these sites, how many additional animal abusers and human killers are going to be matured into further grievous action ?

These sites should have a responsibility; one of taking action to remove data which breeds killing and abuse.  I do not see it; thus I close by saying; “through these sites the world is becoming amore abusive and harmful to both animals and humans each and every day.  CEO’s, it is over to you to take action, and ACT NOW !”

Regards Mark

EXPOSING AND COMBATING CAT TORTURE NETWORKS. 6/1/24.

A few of the Chinese animal abusers – click above for more information.:

https://sites.google.com/view/savecatsinchina/abuser-list/organized-abuse