Target: Thomas J. Vilsack, United States Secretary of Agriculture
Goal: Mandate psychological treatment for kids who commit acts of animal cruelty to protect other animals and people.
It was over a year ago that Buddy the dog was found near death, with an extension cord tied around his neck, covered in burn marks from having been set on fire. The alleged perpetrator of this heinous crime: a 12-year-old Mississippi child. While this would typically be considered a felony punishable by up to three years in prison, children under 12 cannot be charged with a crime or evaluated according to Mississippi state law.
In the wake of much public outrage, officials created Buddy’s law which went into effect on July 1st of 2022. According to Buddy’s law, any child convicted of torturing animals is required to receive psychiatric evaluation and treatment. Not only will this law protect thousands of animals from abuse, it will also possibly save the lives of many people, as there is a relatively well established link between animal abuse and later acts of violence towards humans.
Sign this petition to demand Buddy’s law be passed on a federal level and hold abusers in all states across the U.S. accountable for their crimes.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Secretary Vilsack,
Buddy’s law was recently passed in Mississippi after Buddy, a family dog, was found with an extension cord tied tightly around his neck and covered in burn marks. This terrible crime was allegedly committed by a child who, under the age of 12, couldn’t be charged with a crime or evaluated by the state.
Buddy’s law changes this. According to the law, any child convicted of torturing animals is required to receive psychiatric evaluation and treatment. Not only will this get children the help they need, it will also likely save animals and even other people. The correlation between early childhood acts of animal abuse and later acts of violence towards humans is relatively well-established, and perpetrators of crimes towards animals are typically capable of much more.
We are asking you, Mr. Vilsack, to encourage Buddy’s law to be passed on a federal level as an amendment to the Animal Welfare Act.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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Should also do community service. Since parents aren’t willing to punish their kids so they understand it is wrong to abuse or hurt any living things
😳😳😳 that won’t help a evil soul!!
A child who has disregard for any being’s feelings or takes pleasure in their suffering may need ongoing psychiatric help and very careful supervision by their parents.
I totally AGREE 👏🏼👏🏼 That kind of “EVIL IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS “ !!!
While it’s a necessary idea to make this federal law, frankly, by the time the brat is 10 years old, and doing horrible things, the damage has been done and kid isn’t likely to change. Warped for life and will always be a blot on society, either killing animals or people. Because the kid has learned to get a sense of enjoyment of power from doing this. Probably comes from an abusive home, so real problem is low-life parents. Don’t expect the parents to be of any help – they are probably as bad as or worse than the kid.
This is why people should legally need to be psych-evaulated before they are allowed to be parents. Too many poor, uneducated and cruel people in this world, all making more of themselves is the problem. It has to stop.
These KIDS NEEDS RECEIVE SOME OFCTHE EXACT TORTURE AS THEY INFLICT ON INNOCENT ANIMALS WHERE THEY LEARN NEVER TO DO THAT AGAIN!!! NO SLAPS on their WRISTS will help much!!!! These CRUEL KIDS’ PARENTS should be held responsible for their kids under age 10.
You are correct!!! Kids is a “serial killer” in the making,,, PERIOD …..
It is a fact that child animal abusers go on to become your next serial killer. Children who kill animals need mental help and the sooner the better before some innocent person is next. Every state in this country needs to wake up and recognize the potential serial killer in the making and make it mandatory that these children be under psychiatric care.
Do not waste tax payers money on any treatment,,,, HE IS A EVIL BRAIN WITH AN EVIL SOUL!!! THIS KIND OF EVIL HAS BEEN STUDIED IN SERIAL KILLERS ,,,, AS HE IS THAT KIND OF DARK SOUL …..
Nadine – Mental Help will not have any effect on these psychopathic vile and evil animal torturing murdering monster KIDS. They are definitely psychopathic animal torturing murdering monsters and will continue torturing and murdering precious and helpless sentient beings until they become the vile and evil SERIAL KILLERS ON OUR PLANET. ERADICATION FROM OUR PLANET MUST BE COMMITTED.
Budding serial killers!
TRUE….
I favour something a bit more permanent!
I agree – and I think most people agree with you
I don’t give even one iota of one fuck how old this shitty heap of garbage was when it did this. Its brain is broken and it will surely become the next Jeffrey Dahmer. Cut off its oxygen supply because there is absolutely NO amount of therapy or rehab that can fix what is irreparably broken.
Kill the little brat
I agree!
Ich stimme dir zu
HE DESERVES THE EXACT SAME TREATMENT,,,, EYE FR AN EYE SEVERELY PUNISH HIS “ EVIL SELF “ !!!
Yep!!
I agree with Vanessa. Exterminate them now before they become serial killers. Some people can’t be fixed. This is an example.
I ALSO AGREE !!! Many studies have shown what that evil being did is a serial killer in the making !!
I think if a human tortures and abuses an animal or person, they are no use to society and should be terminated. Regardless of age!
Eine Therapie hilft hier nicht, dieses mist gör hat gefallen daran Tiere zu quälen es ist absehbar was aus diesem Basdart in Zukunft wird er wird der nächste Jeffrey Dahmer.
Was dieses kleine Monster diesem armen Hund angetan hat ist so grausam.
Therapy??? USELESS ON THESE INBRED SOUTHERN NEANDERTHALS AND THEY ARE ALL REASONS ABORTIONS AND VASECTOMIES SHOULD BE SAFE LEGAL AND FREE AT AMERICAS MALLS!
STREET JUSTICE!
KICK THAT PUNKS ASS !
TIE IT UP AND BURN IT!
AND ITS USELESS PARENTS!
It’s always these poor white trash so called kids with no self respect let alone respect for others…the bastard should be taken out and shot and left for dead and so should his piece of shit disgusting so called parents….
There is no treatment .. if anything it gives the vile little shits tips to hide it better. Solution .. do whatever they did to the animal .. to them. FUCK TREATMENT
I SAY BUSHIT ON 12 YEARS OLD! IF THE STUPID ASSHOLE IS OLD ENOUGH TO DO THE CRIME, THEY’RE OLD ENOUGH TO DO THE TIME!
IF YOU PEOPLE CONTINUE TO TREAT THEM AS “POOR LITTLE CHILDREN”, THEY’LL THINK THIS IS ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR!
STOP WITH THE SLAP ON THE WRISTS. PUT THOSE “POOR LITTLE CHILDREN” IN JAIL FOR A GOOD 5 YEARS! I DON’T GIVE TWO SHITS HOW OLD THOSE ABUSIVE PUNKS ARE! THROW AWAY THE DAMN KEY!
HEADS UP !!!! THAT DEMON BEING IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS ,,,,, PERIOD !!! SERIAL KILLER ON THE MAKING ,,,, NO DOUBT IN MY MIND !!! STUDIES SHOW THIS EVIL BEING IS VERY DANGEROUS TO ANIMALS AND OTHER CHILDREN !!!!! MUST NOT BE SET FREE TO TORTURE/MURDER INNOCENT SOULS !!!
Personally, I blame the PARENTS and the way they are (not) bringing up their children to be honorable members of society. It has NOTHING to do with “mental illness”. That’s just a fashionable excuse for bad behavior.
All these vile and evil lowlife monster Kids from hell who are definitely psychopathic monsters from hell must be sentenced to death.
Mental treatment for these monster psychopathic kids from hell will not stop these lowlife vile and evil monsters from hell.They must be put to death this is the only way that these vile and evil psychopathic monster kids can be stopped.
The vile and evil kid psycho monsters will continue torturing and murdering precious and innocent sentient beings. If not eradicated from our Planet.
These monsters kids from hell are our future SERIAL KILLERS who will deliberately and heinously torture to death innocent and helpless Children and humans if not eradicated from our Planet.
The FBI and other studies have linked psychopathic behaviours in adults to animal abuse when they were children.
Stop them before they grow up to commit heinous crimes on people.
I don’t absolutely agree. I’m sure that in these cases the parents would need mental treatment, because it’s from there that kids learn how to behave. Filling children up with medicines is never a good treatment. So go for the parents! and the kids will not even start to do anything like that.