Family Kitten Brutally Beaten, Left To Die Inside Dumpster By 12-Year-Old Boy 'Out Of Anger'

A 12-year-old boy from Nashville, Tennessee, was charged with animal abuse Tuesday for beating his family kitten and throwing it in a dumpster to die.

The unidentified boy’s mother returned home Oct. 3 and found her daughter’s nine-month-old kitten missing. She started searching for the feline but couldn’t find it anywhere. She then questioned her son about it. The boy admitted to beating the animal brutally and throwing it in a dumpster behind their apartment complex.

The woman rushed to the spot and rescued the cat. She took it to a nearby animal hospital where the cat underwent emergency surgery for its broken leg. During interrogation, the woman told police that her son committed the crime "out of anger" and her family had no issues with the boy. The exact motive behind the crime was, however, not known.

The accused was taken into custody. He confessed to the crime before the court and was charged with aggravated animal abuse, a felony. The condition of the kitten was not known.

In a similar incident earlier this month, a teen in the United Kingdom was banned from keeping pets after he was found guilty of putting his pet cat inside a washing machine overnight until it died of suffocation. Harry Thompson, 17, put the short-haired cat called Squeak inside a washing machine for an "extreme length of time” and “caused unnecessary suffering” to the feline which died of suffocation. The accused was given a detention training order of four months and ordered to pay $244 compensation.