Boy fed zoo reptiles to crocodile

Boy fed zoo reptiles to crocodile
04-10-2008

From the BBC site today, a rather distrubing story about a semmingly distrubed and poorly parented 7 yr old at Alice Springs Reptile Centre. Very distressing for the animals and keepers I would think.

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Boy fed zoo reptiles to crocodile

04-10-2008

that is one really sick kid. It is I think well-documented that children who torture animals often progress onto people later in life and become serial killers.

04-10-2008

When I read the article and what that boy did I felt physically sick. And the fact that he cannot be prosecuted because he is under 10 years old is even more disturbing. We in the zoo world can feel the horror of this kid's acts, but what if he had done that to a child--would he still be allowed to skip prosecution. A pshycopath is a psychopath is a psycopath no matter what age and no matter what species he is torturing or killing, and I don't think that they ever get better.

04-10-2008

This is really bad news, there has to be a real problem here lets hope something can be done about it

04-10-2008

This is very saddening hmmmp, suing the parents shouldn't he be sent to some sort of facility?!

04-10-2008

Shame he didn't throw himself to the croc. This kid definitely has issues

04-10-2008

I guess there have been worse cases like the time how someone beat a koala to death, ( sad much?)

04-10-2008

I heard of a zoo in Europe where someone snuck in at night and beat all of the penguins to death. I thought i was going to throw up.

04-10-2008

With a seven year old kid, definately there is something wrong in what is going on in his mind, yet the cases with adults I just wonder what kind of motive these kid of people have?

04-10-2008

Truly disgusting. This just has to be one of the most horrific events that have happened during my residence here. To find out a 7 year old kid could cause so much damage with a big smile on his face just freaks me out completely and I surely hope I don't have the unfortunate chance of passing him down town. I know some of the people who work there and I really feel for them, this is bound to leave a stain for many years to come. I do hope they will find justice however knowing how things are run here it seems rare. Since about the only thing the laws here will permit is for action to be taken against the kid's guardians and it’s most likely they can’t even literary afford to be sued, the sad reality of this town...

04-10-2008

I feel so sorry for the staff at the zoo, there is only so much they can do to protect the animals.
More to the point what was a child of 7 doing there on his own? The parents should be charged with endangering a child's life from lack of supervision. Then as it has been suggested in the Toronto Star this morning be sued for the amount of damage the child caused. As you say Jusin they will probably claim they can't afford to pay and get away with it. I would think there are major problems in this child's life and hopefully the authorities will look into it before he goes on a rampage killing in his school as we have all soon before in High Schools and colleges. Very sad.

05-10-2008

"At one point, he tried scaling the outer enclosure himself to get to "Terry", the 11ft (3.3m) saltwater crocodile. "

Pity he didnt manage to get in!

05-10-2008

I hate to say it but I agree. Does anyone know where his parents were, I haven't seen anything about them in our news reports?
At age 7 maybe there is time to change him so I guess it is a good job he did meet up with Terry.

05-10-2008

How did he get to the animals in the first place? and how did nobody notice what he was doing?

05-10-2008

No one comes out clean in this horrible event: not the kid, not the parents, certainly not the zoo, or his teachers and neighbors. I cannot believe that a child who was peaceful and social in all other areas suddenly became an Hannibal Lechter. Why wasn't he given help or put away before this? Where were all the adults who didn't protect him, his classmates, or zoo animals???