Teens under investigation for dog abuse prompt PETA to deliver kindness teaching kit to schools
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January 21, 2022
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Brooke Rossi 202-483-7382
Bucyrus, Ohio – Following reports that the Crawford County Sheriff’s Department is investigating allegations that a 17-year-old man hit a dog with his car and shared video footage of him beheading the animal in the vehicle. On social media, TeachKind – PETA’s humanitarian education division – sent a letter to Director Greg Nickoli today offering to provide the Pioneer Career & Technology Center and the schools surrounding the program teaches K – 12 about kindness to animals and “Sympathize now, ” Guidelines for the prevention of violent behavior by adolescents towards animals. The group is also offering free empathy-building virtual presentations to help prevent future violence.
“If the reports are true that this teenager killed and decapitated this dog and then bragged about it on social media, then he needs psychological counseling and should be banned from contacting him. animals,” said PETA Senior Director of Youth Programs Marta Holmberg. “In the meantime, PETA’s TeachKind is here to support schools that teach students that violence is wrong, whether the victim is an animal or a classmate.”
TeachKind notes that research shows that 43 percent of perpetrators of schoolyard massacres first commit cruelty to animals, often against dogs and cats — so animal abusers minors pose a serious threat to the community at large. Other TeachKind resources include the free high school social justice curriculum,”Challenging assumptions“And”Share with the world“The program is suitable for young children. Its staffers – who used to be classroom teachers – are also offering to send materials to schools, suggest lesson plans and hold virtual discussions, all for free.
TeachKind — in part, the writer’s motto that “animals are not ours to be abused in any way” — advocates speciesism, a human worldview – supremacism . Group letters to directors are available upon request. For more information, please visit TeachKind.org.
