The Evil That Men Do: Oregon Man Sentenced to Prison for Beheading Mother's Cat

[onedef92]

Oregon Man Sentenced to Prison for Beheading Mother's Cat

SALEM, Ore. — Dec 17, 2015, 4:08 PM ET 20 Shares
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A Salem man who beheaded his mother's cat was sentenced to more than four years in prison after pleading guilty to animal abuse and drug charges.

Rudy Espinoza was arrested in June after neighbors called 911. Deputies found him scratched and covered in blood.

Asked why he killed the cat, the man reportedly said it was because the cat was evil.

Investigators got a search warrant to inspect his bedroom. That led to a charge of delivering the drug Ecstasy.

Marion County Judge Jamese Rhoades sentenced the 25-year-old man Thursday.

[island14]

Isn't that how Jeffrey Dahmer got his start? :island14:

[onedef92]

Isn't that how Jeffrey Dahmer got his start? :island14:

And he's not alone, according to Psychology Today magazine...

Troubled children are much more likely to mistreat animals. While less than 5% of U. S. children are estimated to have intentionally hurt an animal, for children at mental health clinics, animal cruelty rates range from 10 to 25%. Prof. Frank Ascione at the University of Denver and Prof. Arnold Arluke at Northeastern University estimate that one in four children and adolescents with conduct disorder have abused animals. Children who have been physically abused and exposed to domestic violence are at even higher risk. In an assessment of 1433 children ages 6 to 12, Ascione found that among abused children, 60% had abused animals.

Animal abuse is often the first sign of serious disturbance among adolescent and adult killers. On Oct. 1, 1997, Luke Woodham, a sophomore at Pearl High School, in a suburb of Jackson, MI, stabbed his mother to death and then opened fire on classmates with a hunting rifle, killing two girls and wounding seven other students. Investigators later found Woodham’s account of his torture and killing of his pet dog Sparkle, which the boy described as his “first kill.” On May 21, 1998, fifteen year old Kip Kinkel shot his parents to death before emptying three guns at his classmates in Thurston High School, Springfield, OR, leaving one dead and 26 injured.

Kip had often bragged to others at school about how he tortured animals. Jeffrey Dahmer, Albert DeSalvo (the “Boston strangler”), David Berkowitz (the “Son of Sam”) and Carroll Edward Cole, a serial killer accused of 35 deaths, all recounted animal torture as their first violent act. When counselors at several federal penitentiaries evaluated inmates for levels of aggression, 70% of the most violent prisoners had serious and repeated animal abuse in their childhood histories, as compared to 6% of nonaggressive prisoners in the same facilities.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/why-the-wild-things-are/201302/do-mass-killers-start-out-harming-pets

[Shrike6]

Anyone who would abuse an animal is mentally defective.

[stingraymyway]

Hope he gets put in the general population and everyone knows what he did.:issues: