New Zealand Dog News

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September 01, 2009

Family of dog killer spat at, abused

The family of convicted Dunedin dog killer Jeffrey Hurring say they are being punished for his crime, as they face a wave of threats and abuse on the street and via the internet.

Robin and Jennette Hurring yesterday told the Otago Daily Times they had been spat at, abused and insulted since their son was sentenced for animal cruelty in June.

Their son had also received anonymous death threats posted to him in prison in Christchurch, and the family were aware of a flood of vitriolic and threatening comments posted on social networking websites.

"People point the finger, they spit at you, they call you names. "It was our son that did it, but we are getting all the [abuse]," Mrs Hurring (54) said. Perhaps people know that someone who abuses animals were themselves abused.... I'm not saying that this guy was abused by his parents. I don't have a clue, but it may be the reason why people are finger pointing the parents.

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"The attack was out of character for their son and due to "the alcohol more than anything". MORE>>

Then we wonder why alcohol is still legal while other drugs like cannabis are demonized when there is no correlation between cannabis and violence, apart from the consequences of the law.

Interesting how people feel that dog abuse is worse than child abuse. Do child abusers get the same treatment? I'm a little miffed about this. We've got the worse child abuse in the Western world, and 1.4 million people in New Zealand say it's okay to smack a child.

(For those reading this from overseas, we''ve just had a referendum about child smacking.)


1 Comments:

  • At 12:17 p.m., Blogger Unknown said…

    actually, the response wasnt that its ok to smack a child, the reponse was thats its up to parental decision whether a light smack is deemed appropriate. That choice and child abuse are far apart.

     

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