How Sad

From the Las Vegas Sun:
Two 11-year-olds have been arrested on seven counts of animal cruelty in an incident earlier this month that allegedly led to the death of six newborn kittens.
Metro Police officials said witnesses were alerted to what sounded like glass shattering around 5 p.m. Oct. 9. Initially witnesses thought the two juveniles were throwing rocks at an apartment building around the 9600 block of Russell Road.
In reality, witnessed told authorities, the youngsters had been throwing rocks at a mother cat giving birth. The cat’s six kittens ultimately died.
Clark County Animal Control turned investigation over to Metro Police to locate the suspects, who had fled the area. The two kids were found and on Thursday were arrested and booked into Clark County Juvenile Hall.  http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/oct/19/11-year-olds-arrested-deaths-six-kittens/
This is sad for many reasons.
Obviously for the kittens and the mama cat, it's not good.
But these kids are going to be screwed up for life.  Not only are people going to hate them for a long time but the animal right nut jobs are going to threaten to kill them.
Further, these kids have some serious psychological issues going on.  To think it is fun to kill kittens is just mentally wrong, so the kids are going to need some strong psychological therapy and they need to be watched over time, as animal killers tend to be people killers later in life.  They also don't need family members who excuse their behavior.
Hopefully, these kids will not be thrown to the wolves, so to speak, and they get some help that it appears they need.