The Ducks

From the Cedar Rapids Gazette, this is sick:

CEDAR RAPIDS - Vandals stoned and beat to death about 50 ducks, including some that were just days old, at the Bever Park Children's Zoo overnight.

A zoo employee discovered the dead birds around 7 a.m. this morning. Some were floating in a pond, and others were piled up near a broken rake.

Dave Smith, the city parks superintendent, said whoever was responsible broke the lock on the front gate to the pen and broke into two of the three night houses where the birds are kept overnight.

They believe at least one person herded the ducks together while someone else did the killing.

"They stoned some to death inside the cage with rocks that were part of the landscape," Smith said. "Some of them ran into the water, which is what they would usually do for safety. Once they got into the pond, they stoned them in the pond."

As if Cedar Rapids doesn't have enough problems.

With animal killings like this, it's usually teenage or young adult males doing the crime. This won't be the first time they've been in trouble with the law. And it likely won't be the first time they've killed animals in this manner. Usually, these types of individuals are budding psychopaths and future murderers.

If somebody is arrested, will the public get a look inside their juvenile criminal record? I can just guess how many times the perps of this horrendous crime have been put on probation or released to their "parents" over the years.

I believe all criminal records should be open to the public regardless of age.