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Huge Price Reduction! Every Vehicle Below Book Value Quality Luxury Imports BMWs, Lexus, Mercedes only at Coast to Coast By Kevin Corcoran and Kevin O'NealA tip from an animal-rights group led to charges against two 14-year-old Marion County girls who posted a video of themselves kicking a cat wrapped in plastic on the popular Web site MySpace.com.
"I think we have a pretty good case," Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi said Thursday as he watched the video online for the first time.Authorities were alerted to the video by a letter from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, charging documents indicate.The nearly two-minute video, which was still on the Web site Thursday afternoon, shows the girls dropping, shoving and kicking the plastic-wrapped cat, named Stump, around a room, making comments such as "How does it feel?"MySpace.com officials could not be reached for comment. The social-networking site, used by more than 40 million people, lets users create their own Web pages and is especially popular with teens and young adults."Someone saw this video of cat abuse and contacted our organization," said Kristin DeJournett, a cruelty caseworker for PETA based in Memphis, Tenn. The organization contacted animal control and the Marion County prosecutor's office.PETA learned of the video April 12 and sent out the notices the next day, DeJournett said.The cat was removed from the home by Indianapolis animal-control officers, according to the prosecutor's office.Both girls have been released to their mothers pending a trial June 13. Authorities withheld the girls' names because the animal cruelty charge they face would be a misdemeanor if it had involved an adult. Names of juveniles charged with felony-level offenses are public.The girls are not allowed to leave their homes unless they are accompanied by a parent or are attending school. They also cannot have contact with animals or each other or use computers unless they are doing schoolwork."It's against the law to mistreat animals, for a reason. This cat urinated on itself when this was over," Brizzi said. "These girls may need counseling. This kind of behavior means there could be issues that need to be dealt with before they do something worse."The cat was in good condition Thursday, said Media Wilson, a spokeswoman for Animal Care & Control."Stump is 19 pounds, which is overweight, but is otherwise healthy," she said. "He suffered no lasting damage as a result of the alleged abuse."The cat may be returned to its owner and is not available for adoption, she said. Another cat and a dog were taken from the same residence.The head of one of the city's oldest animal-protection organizations worries that children who abuse animals can grow up to become people who abuse other people."I certainly think that seeing young children involved in animal abuse is a scary thing," said Martha Boden, CEO of the Humane Society of Indianapolis. "The more quickly we can try to help the children, the animals and the family involved, the better."PETA agrees. "People who abuse animals rarely stop there," DeJournett said. " . . . There's a definite link between cruelty to animals and an abuse of people."The city Humane Society handles about 10,000 animals each year, a few with signs of abuse or neglect. Boden said the society refers those cases to the county animal control division.One example surfaced Thursday, the day the abuse case was filed by the prosecutor's office. Boden said a 4-month-old kitten brought to the society's kennels had suffered a crushed skull and severe eye injury, reportedly at the hands of children.The woman who turned the animal in said the kitten had been hit with a bucket and a stick and was tied to a bench in front of her home. It was unclear Thursday whether the kitten would survive.
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