Little menace

This article made me feel so sad, primarily for the animals that were killed, but also for the parents of this kid, who have their work cut out for them, and for the kid too, who after all must be seriously disturbed to perform such an act:

A seven-year-old boy has been filmed going on the rampage at a popular zoo in Australia, killing rare reptiles and feeding live ones to a crocodile.

Footage from the security cameras at Alice Springs Reptile Centre caught the child smiling as he killed a total of 13 animals.

During his 30-minute spree, he was seen hurling the animals over the security fence into the crocodile enclosure.
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The attack happened on Wednesday morning after the boy entered the zoo by jumping over the security fence and evading sensor alarms.

Over the next half hour, he bludgeoned some of the animals to death with stones and hurled others over the two fences surrounding the crocodile enclosure.
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Zoo director Rex Neindorf said many of the animals were rare or mature and would be difficult to replace.
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As children under the age of 10 cannot be held accountable for their actions in the Northern Territory, the zoo would be seeking to take action against the parents.

"We'll be looking at suing the parents, who were supposedly in control of him at the time," he said.

I hope they do, after all, the parents were supposed to know where their son was and keep him under control.

I cannot imagine that this was the first ever episode of "craziness" on the part of this child, which means that the parents should have kept a very close eye on him and even sought professional help in dealing with him.

Whatever happens to kid and his parents, the animals are dead and it will cost the town a lot of money to replace them. And for an animal lover like me, they cannot be replaced, since they were unique beings.