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It has also been found that children who are cruel to animals have often witnessed or been victims of abuse themselves. [47] In two separate studies cited by the Humane Society of the United States, roughly one-third of families suffering from domestic abuse indicated that at least one child had hurt or killed a pet. [48]
In many instances of nonparental infanticide in carnivores, the male of a species kills the young of a female to make her sexually receptive, e.g. brown bears. When one or two new male lions defeat and exile the previous males of a pride, the conqueror(s) will often kill any existing young cubs fathered by the losers. [3]
FBI special agent Alan Brantly believed that some offenders kill animals as a rehearsal for killing human victims. [9] Cruelty to animals is mainly used to vent frustration and anger the same way firesetting is. Extensive amounts of humiliation were also found in the childhoods of children who engaged in acts of cruelty to animals.
Maternal Infanticide, the killing of dependent young by the mother, is rare in non-human primates and has been reported only a handful of times. Maternal infanticide has been reported once in brown mantled tamarins, Saguinus fuscicollis , once in black fronted titis, Callicebus nigrifrons , and four times in mustached tamarins, Saguinus mystax ...
Susan Smith, who has served 30 years of a life sentence for killing her two young sons in 1994, was denied parole by the South Carolina Board of Paroles and Pardons on Wednesday.
Zoosadism is sexual pleasure derived from cruelty to animals. It is a paraphilia, where people are sexually aroused by torturing animals. [1] Zoosadism is part of the Macdonald triad, a set of three behaviors that have been considered a precursor to psychopathic behavior. [2]
The police have traced down three female clients and charged them with taking part in a conspiracy to hurt animals. Choi Ching-ning, a 25-year-old beauty salon receptionist, pleaded guilty to two ...
Infants and young children would often be killed, roasted, and eaten by their mother and sometimes also fed to siblings, usually during times of famine. In non-filial cases when a child was "well-fed" and in the absence of its mother sometimes a man or the whole community would kill and consume the child.