Sing Sing guard gets year in jail for killing 5 kittens

News Radio 88 ^ | 3/22/02

[areafiftyone]

White Plains, New York-AP) -- A former prison guard who killed five kittens in a trash compactor at Sing Sing has been sentenced to a year in jail. A judge said the crime was ``so offensive and so calculated and so gratuitously cruel it diminishes the humanity of everybody.''

Forty-eight-year-old Ronald Hunlock had been convicted of aggravated cruelty to animals. Last March he found an inmate with contraband at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining. He then searched the inmate's cell, found five newborn kittens and their mother and told the inmate to put them in the compactor. The inmate refused, so Hunlock did it himself.

The mother cat escaped but the kittens were crushed. Defense attorney Daniel Gallivan had asked the judge not to impose jail time, and said Hunlock thought the cats were ill and had no other recourse.

[#3Fan]

When people get worked up over the 40,000,00 innocent AMERICAN human lives lost since 1973, then I'll think about getting worked up over dead kittens.

I get worked up over both. So you're saying since we can't stop people from murdering infants that it's OK to torture animals?

[sinkspur]

In short, most people are lonely, even some of the pillars of society because they have no true friends but their pets.

On the other hand, pets provide companionship to some of the most forlorn in our society.

I'd take my two dogs over lots of humans I've met. In fact, I do.

[#3Fan]

People who have inordinate affection for animals tend to have problems in human relationships.

So that makes it OK to torture animals?

[Sangamon Kid]

So you're saying since we can't stop people from murdering infants that it's OK to torture animals.

Nope, I just don't get worked up over it. I'd rather strain the log instead of the gnat if you know what I mean.

[sinkspur]

It is likewise unworthy to spend money on them that should as a priority go to the relief of human misery.

This is a nonsensical statement, and I'm surprised it's in the Catholic Catechism.

It implies that trips to the vet are taking money from "the relief of human misery."

Some humans are miserable because they choose to be miserable.

[Sangamon Kid]

Did you ever think that the cruelty to animals might be directly related to the disregard we have for human life?

[#3Fan]

Nope, I just don't get worked up over it. I'd rather strain the log instead of the gnat if you know what I mean.

The knat isn't that far down from the log in this case. Life is life.

[#3Fan]

Did you ever think that the cruelty to animals might be directly related to the disregard we have for human life?

Or vice-versa.

[Sangamon Kid]

Life is life.

Are you a Hindu? "Life is life" is certainly not biblical.

[stands2reason]

"inordinate amount of affection" for animals is believing their torture should be criminalized? Well, I guess then that 99% of the civilized world has difficulty with human relationships except for you and some psychotics. Well, I wouldn't want to have a relationship with anyone who felt that way.

[CasearianDaoist]

Again, if one looks at the facts people who abuse animals are the ones that have problems forming and maintaining relationships with their fellow humans. This is in fact one of the signal pathologies used by law enforcement in profiling mass murderers. Its all over the literature - check it out.

[#3Fan]

Are you a Hindu? "Life is life" is certainly not biblical.

Wrongo:

Mat 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

God concerns Himself with a sparrow falling on the ground, let alone 5 cats being crushed needlessly.

[Sangamon Kid]

"inordinate amount of affection" for animals is believing their torture should be criminalized?

Say what? I'm not sure I understand your point, Stands2.

[Sangamon Kid]

Mat 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. God concerns Himself with a sparrow falling on the ground, let alone 5 cats being crushed needlessly.

How convenient of you to leave out the 2 verses that follow.

...But the very hairs of your head are numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of MORE VALUE THAN MANY SPARROWS. (Matthew 10:29-31)

[Sangamon Kid]

That's(Matthew 10:30-31). Sorry.

[Aliska]

I can't say that I blame you. Give 'em a hug for me.

[CasearianDaoist]

Are you inferring the the Judeo-Christain legacy condones animal abuse because animals are not our equla in the eyes of God?

[#3Fan]

How convenient of you to leave out the 2 verses that follow. ...But the very hairs of your head are numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of MORE VALUE THAN MANY SPARROWS. (Matthew 10:29-31)

I made it clear in post #147 that an infant's life is farther up than a kitten's. You're trying to put words into my mouth. Show me where I claimed that kittens are as valuable as infants. I said life is life, which is clearly what Matthew is saying. Matthew is saying God is aware of the happenings of life.

[stands2reason]

Why would you assume those that believe animal cruelty should be criminalized are "inordinately affectionate towards animals?

[#3Fan]

Are you saying that the awareness that God concerns Himself with a sparrow falling from a tree should have no affect on how we treat animals?