AR-News: (US TN) Kitten torture case has kids facing felonies

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Daily Post
 
 
full story:     By: BEN  BENTON Staff Writer
Source: _The Daily Post-Athenian_ (http://dpa.xtn.net/)  
06-28-2004    
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ENGLEWOOD — Felony  charges are pending against two juvenile boys in an 
alleged animal cruelty case  investigated by Englewood police and sheriff’s 
deputies, the Tennessee Humane  Society and the state Department of Children’s 
Services.  
Englewood Police Sgt. David Greaves said Wednesday the charges stem from a  
case of abuse involving five kittens whose eyes had just begun to open and a  
small, mixed-breed dog.  
The boys involved are age 10 and 14, Greaves said.  
“According to the witnesses, there were five kittens. They tied their rear  
legs together at the ankles, hit them against a tree and hung them up where the 
 dogs could get them,” said Greaves, who is the Englewood Police Department’
s  canine officer.  
Police say the alleged abuse is said to have taken place sometime between  
June 17 and 19 at a residence in Englewood.  
“We began our investigation on June 19 and what we have charged now is up  
through June 20 in our investigation,” Greaves said.  
“Because of the severity of the abuse and due to the sadisticness and  
outright torture of the animals, we are pushing for felony charges,” he said. 
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