Epidemic:
Kids Hurting Animals

As mental-health and law-enforcement experts well know, cruelty to animals and violence against humans are inextricably linked. Many educators are aware that serial killers and school shooters—including alleged killers Salvador Ramos, Payton Gendron, Nikolas Cruz, and Ethan Crumbley—tend to have a history of cruelty to animals, and Sandy Hook Promise has cruelty to animals on its “10 Critical Warning Signs of Violence” list.

Forty-three percent of perpetrators of schoolyard massacres commit acts of cruelty to animals first. Educators can help prevent future tragedies by including kindness to animals in the curriculum. Amid the current epidemic of youth violence, PETA urges everyone to report every act of cruelty against animals and calls on authorities to take each animal abuse claim seriously—for the sake of the animal victims and to help prevent future harm. Lives may depend on it.

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Delaware

State Laws

Code 14-609.4.2 A

“School Based Intervention Program shall include both short term and long term intervention strategies. Such strategies may include character education, short or long term counseling to improve behavior which impacts educational performance, and methods to identify the need to refer students for additional services either within the district or to other agencies. The Program shall also include support services to provide a smooth transition for students who are returning to their regular school from a Consortium Discipline Alternative Program or from a Department of Services to Children, Youth and their Families (DSCYF) setting.” (Source)

 

Reported Animal Abuse Cases

November 2012/Wilmington, Delaware

NBC 10 Philadelphia reported that authorities were investigating a 17-year-old boy concerning the apparent abuse and abandonment of a 3-month-old puppy, nicknamed Gypsy, who police found emaciated and lying in the fetal position on a trash bag, tied to a telephone pole in an alley. Reportedly barely responsive when she was located, Gypsy had apparently spent over 72 hours exposed to cold temperatures, without food or water, before being rushed to receive emergency veterinary care.