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It's hard to believe but someone...without showing off by gunning down an entire kindergarten class or committing a mass raping at a convent or something similar, and they aren't eligible for this award anyway because they get their own special category---has tied Putz "Shorty" McWorthless for Most Despicable Person Of The Year.

That someone is Danield Collins of Muncie, Indiana and here is how he managed to tie Putz in evilness:

Dad gets 18 months for killing family cat
Man admits to forcing 7-year-old daughter to stab the pet to death

updated 4:16 a.m. CT, Sat., Aug. 30, 2008

MUNCIE, Ind. - An Indiana man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting he forced his 7-year-old daughter to stab the family cat to death.

During his sentencing on Friday, Danield Collins said he was "extremely sorry" for his actions. The judge in the case told him it wasn't "civilized conduct."

In exchange for a guilty plea on animal cruelty and two counts of neglect, prosecutors dropped three other felony charges against the 39-year-old.

Collins' daughter and his 11-year-old son said Collins ordered them to stab the cat in March because he wanted them to "learn to kill."

Police say the boy tried to hide the cat, but Collins found the animal and strangled it while his children watched.

Collins says he was intoxicated at the time and remembers little about what happened that day.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26466169/

What disturbs me most about this....well, not most but it ties for first place with what upsets me most about this story...is that it mentions nothing about child abuse, child endangerment and taking the kids away from this guy.

I know that most of the time that the whole taking kids away thing is ridiculous...just this summer there was a dad who had his kids taken away because he mistakenly gave one of them a hard lemonade and there have been countless cases for spanking and taking pictures of little kids in the bathtub...and the system should be fixed.

But we have those laws for a reason and there has probably never been a better example of how much they're needed than this one. We just need to use them for real reasons like this and stop using them for the ridiculous cases.

Do you want this guy raising kids? And is 18 months in jail enough for him? I think this is one time when everyone would be better served if this guy had no contact with kids or animals ever again. It would probably be a good idea to forbid him from ever owning a gun, too.

What if the next time he gets drunk, he decides that everyone at Burger King should die? It would be a real good time for him to not have a gun. I'm not big on child protection laws or gun laws because they have been abused so much that they have become jokes but cases like this reminds me that we do need them and we really really need to stop abusing them.

We should never see a story about parents losing their kids because of something that really isn't abuse at all and when we see a story like this one, it should say that the state agencies are all over it. So why does it seem to be the opposite?

And are all you people out there who are screaming about protecting children from everything going to try to get involved in this? I maintain that we really don't care about kids at all and if we did, this story would include something about Danield Collins losing custody of his children.

Current Mood: depressed
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