10 year old strangles 5 animals
Two ducks, one chicken, a rabbit and a guinea pig. A ten year old girl from Heerlen strangled the animals with her bare hands, last Friday evening.
The animals, property of Beerengoed (a child daycare center) in Heerlen, were found lifeless on Saturday morning in the animal pens.
CCTV recordings led to the youthful perpetrator. On the recordings one can see the girl arriving at the daycare center on Friday around half past seven, she climbed over a fence and go into the animal pens.
After about thirty minutes she comes out with a dead chicken in her hands. She tosses it away when she climbs over the fence and moves off.
Volunteers of the Beerengoed, who wanted to let the animals out on Saturday morning found the dead animals and called the police.
Marion Schelberg, head of Beerengoed is devastated by the events. "I hope the young girl gets professional help as soon as possible, because this kind of behavior is disturbing".
According to the partner of Schelberg, who is a doctor, the animals had been throttled/strangled to dead. From a criminal point of view her acts do not have consequences. In the Netherlands youthful offenders can only be prosecuted when they are 12 years or older.