Dear Source:
Having read this article and the news of the strangled horse on St. Croix, I might now be sufficiently calm to write a cogent, non-emotional response to these abominations.
If it was pent up, unreleased anger that led to these acts, that is a frightening revelation. And to know from multitudes of scientific investigations that animal abusers don't stop only with that is even more disturbing. It has been shown over and over again that children and women often become the object of the violence with like results.
Until the violent persons are brought to justice and then ministered to by the community to assuage this anger properly, the cycle will continue. Social programs must be funded, professionally staffed and services delivered with all haste. It is our civic responsibility.
Moreover, the reasons for this behavior often stem from inadequate and inattentive child rearing along with lack of appropriate role models. An extended family helps, but who is in charge of the children with no fathers evident? The responsibility starts with the very decision to have a child…it starts right there.
Margo Rose
St. Thomas
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