DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2001�
Boy watches in horror as teens hang his dog
Edmonton Journal
Sun Feb 03 2002 14:37:13 ET
A 10-year-old boy had to watch in horror Saturday
afternoon as the dog he had
grown up with was hanged from some playground equipment by a group of
teens.
;I've never dealt with anything like this before,'' said Const. Mike
Moulds of the RCMP. ;This is quite
disturbing to think that people could do this.''
The attack happened at a schoolyard in the Edmonton suburb of St.
Albert.
The boy was playing with his dog, Sheba, on a slide at around 2 p.m.
when the teens approached.
Moulds said the teens took the eight-year-old German-shepherd cross from
the boy and used the leash
to hang it from the top of a piece of equipment.
When police arrived the dog was dead. The boy's mother, who only wanted
the family's first names
used, told the Edmonton Journal that her son David had been crying
uncontrollably since the dog was
killed.
;There are sick kids out there and they need help and they need to come
to justice,'' said Donna,
David's mother. ;They traumatized my 10-year-old son. He blames himself
for this because he
couldn't do anything.''
David told Donna that, when the boys approached, they were taunting him.
David yelled for help and ran to a nearby skating rink when they hanged
his dog.
He found a stranger with a cellphone ;and said `please call my mom and
dad because my dog is
strangling,''' Donna said.
Moulds said officers have fanned out looking for information on
suspects, but no arrested had been
made as of Saturday night.
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