Teacher who fed puppy to snapping turtle in front of children found not guilty of animal cruelty

Well, they’ve had nine months to can his twisted ass and he’s still teaching. I hope some parents sue the district for letting him do that in front of kids. There is a world of moral difference between natural predation in the wild and feeding a mentally and emotionally complex domesticated pet live to a captured predator and then rationalizing it with lawyering. When the moral standard for the conduct of educators, cops and other public servents is “it’s not illegal” their compass is broken.

Robert Crosland’s not teaching kids about the circle of life. He’s teaching them that he’s a vicious piece of shit who shouldn’t be allowed around other people’s children. Not as bad a vindictive cop who shot a civlian’s puppy for spite is a piss-poor standard to which to hold a teacher.

The link between animal cruelty and human cruelty has been known since ancient times even to cultures where it was and remains common to raise livestock to feed family and other livestock. What Crosland did was completely gratuitous.

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