What makes a child do this?

What makes a 13 year old boy shoot a little wild bird and then impale its mutilated body on his bird-loving neighbour's gate?

This afternoon we had a productive meeting with a School Headmaster who has agreed to help us intervene in this troubled child's life before his behaviour escalates out of control. Hopefully we'll be able to introduce Humane Education as part of the school curriculum next year.

There must be something dark and terrifying going on in that young mind or in that family, to make him capable of such an act of random cruelty.

Bulbuls are such cheerful chirpy little birds and they mate for life. Seeing that poor little body displayed so grotesquely really sickened me!