CRUEL TO ANIMALS ONE DAY, SERIAL KILLER THE NEXT

With the success of the NZ Animal welfare act being changed for Harsher penalties for animal abusers the New Zealand public must still be vigilant by exposing animal cruelty and reporting the mistreatment of Animals

Statistics show that people who commit violent acts against animals go on to re-offend against people, committing violent crimes against the person.

Taffy Hotene went from strangling kittens to killing Kylie Jones in August 2000. New Zealand born Taffy started out strangling kittens, moving on to theft, aggravated robbery, sexual assault and finally murder. Read more about Taffy Hotene here.

Our mission is to stop this from happening any further. Not only for the safety of our pets, but also for the safety of people within our community.

Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Andrew Cunanan, David ‘Son of Sam’ Berkowitz, and Albert ‘Boston Strangler’ DeSalvo were ALL cruel to animals before they started hurting people.

Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys – most of whom were of African or Asian descent. His murders were particularly gruesome, involving sexual assault, torture, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism.

Ted Bundy murdered 36 people that authorities know about, Bundy would bludgeon his victims, then strangle them to death. He also engaged in sexual assault and necrophilia

Albert ‘Boston Strangler’ DeSalvo was responsible for killing 13 women after a sexual assault they were strangled with their own clothing.

Killer teenagers Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold from (Columbine High School), and Kip Kinkel were also known for their past history of animal cruelty, and would gloat about what they had done to stray cats, only weeks before they embarked on a massacre killing 12 students and a teacher as well as wounding 23 others

WHAT IS ANIMAL CUELTY?

Animal cruelty defines a range of different behaviours harmful to animals. These behaviours range from neglect to malicious killing. Most cruelty reports have been investigated by humane officers who can educate owners about unintentional neglect. Intentional cruelty or abuse is knowingly depriving an animal of food, water, shelter, socialisation and/or veterinary care or maliciously torturing, maiming, mutilating, or killing an animal.

Who abuse animals?

Most animal abusers are adolescent or young adult males, although children as young as four have been known to harm animals. Many animal abusers have a history of other antisocial or criminal activities, including vandalism, assault, and arson, and many are the victims of physical or sexual abuse. Animal cruelty is often associated with children who do poorly in school and have low self-esteem and few friends.

Why would anyone aBuse animals?

There can be many reasons. Animal cruelty, like any other form of violence, is often committed by a person who feels powerless, unnoticed, and under the control of others. The motive may be to shock, threaten, intimidate, or offend others or to demonstrate rejection of society’s rules. Some who are cruel to animals copy things they have seen or that have been done to them. Others see harming an animal as a safe way to get revenge on someone who cares about that animal. In some cases, animal abuse is associated with deviant arousal.

NZ Case Study Taffy Hotene

He went from strangling kittens to killing Kylie Jones.

These events might have been prevented if we had better checks and balances in place that recognised the seriousness of animal cruelty offences.

Age 15, strangled kittens and mice.

He was in court for theft, and again before he was 16.
He appeared for his first attempted rape of a woman at knifepoint at 17.
He was jailed for just 15 months.

As soon as he was out he walked into the home of a married woman with her two and a half year old daughter and ten month old baby, and attempted to rape her, holding a knife to the baby's head. he was imprisoned for four years.

As soon as he was released, he then attacked three women in Wanganui, in a four day reign of terror. One of them he succeeded in raping. All of them were women minding shops on their own.

Each attack was reasonably well planned and he took precautions such as discarding his clothes after each attack and taking measures to throw police dogs off his trail. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison for these three attacks. He was paroled after 8 years, and within weeks raped and killed Kylie Jones.

Cruelty media links:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12203561