One of the four Camrose teens accused of microwaving a cat to death is on probation for setting his own brother on fire earlier this year, his mother told Sun Media yesterday.Anybody who imagines Canada's adolescent "Get out of Jail Free" programme... doesn't figure into this equation... has obviously been licking poisonous toads.
Sorry, folks... it's time to shred that useless Youth Criminal Injustice Act... and figure out a strategy that actually makes a difference.
Instead of littering big city streets with dead bodies.
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Bill Pitt, a professor of criminology at the University of Alberta, said that violence toward animals is one of a triumvirate of behaviours, along with fire starting and bedwetting, that commonly indicate serous psychiatric problems.*