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Middle school teacher charged for feeding live puppy to snapping turtle while students watched

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• Start date Jun 3, 2018

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The students watched as the sick puppy was eaten alive by a snapping turtle in a Preston, Idaho, junior high classroom in early March, state prosecutors alleged in a Friday filing.

Robert Crosland, a biology teacher at Preston Junior High School, has been accused of misdemeanor animal cruelty, the Associated Press reported.

The allegations surfaced after several parents came forward.

A mother of two boys at the school told the Preston Citizen the puppy was terminally ill and was given to Crosland by its grief-stricken owner; she said Crosland fed the dying puppy to the turtle in a graphic demonstration of the circle of life for his students.

Preston School District 201 Superintendent Marc Gee called the incident a "regrettable circumstance" but said it occurred after school hours, not in front of a full class, KTVB reported.

While the incident sparked worldwide outrage, some parents expressed frustration over the ordeal and have defended Crosland.

Farahlyn Hansen, the mother of the two boys, told the Citizen her sons were more upset about the outrage among school staff leveled at the teacher.

"I am not upset. I felt like it was the more humane thing for Robert to do than to just leave it to die," Hansen told the paper in March.

Despite what some defenders called a humane killing of a puppy, it also led to the turtle's death. The incident triggered an investigation, and state wildlife authorities seized and euthanized the turtle after determining it was a nonnative species, the AP reported.

The case was handed off to the Idaho attorney general after Franklin County Prosecutor Vic Pearson claimed a conflict of interest, according to the news wire.

Crosland and the attorney general's office could not be reached. The school did not return a request seeking comment.

If convicted, Crosland faces up to six months in jail and a $5,000 fine.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...hile-students-watched/?utm_term=.638b98e5eea6

wtf is wrong with people and how is the only a misdemeanor?

• #2

never knew a turtle would eat a damn puppy. not sure I needed to know that.

• #3

The fuck?

Yes. Jail. NOW.

• #4

What is the difference between this and feeding a rat to a snake or a chicken to an alligator? Do dogs receive some kind of special protection under the law?

• #5

never knew a turtle would eat a damn puppy. not sure I needed to know that.

Snapping turtles will basically eat anything possible.

And yea, this is horribly fucked up.

• #6

That's fucking terrible, I don't understand some people saying "this was the humane thing to do", the humane thing to do would be to euthanize it...

• #8

Damn the turtle was killed by a human? Circle of life indeed.

• #9

Jesus fucking Christ

I don't think he should get jail time but he should probably be fired

Like it's one thing to just do this, but in front of your fucking class? What the fuck.

E: just saw it was after hours...still fucked but less so

• #10

Man, that turtle is gonna choke on hairballs for the next few weeks.

Chekhonte

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• #11

That's a fucking nightmare.

• #12

Man, that turtle is gonna choke on hairballs for the next few weeks.

The turtle was killed.

• #13

The thought process involved.

• #15

Tonight we dine on turtle soup.

• #16

Disgusting. Take the dog to the vet and let them put it to sleep. The penalties/jail time for animal cruelty need to be increased.

• #17

What is the difference between this and feeding a rat to a snake or a chicken to an alligator? Do dogs receive some kind of special protection under the law?

Idk if there's a law, but dogs and ctz generally are considered domesticated pets, so that doesn't exactly fly.

• #18

Man, that turtle is gonna choke on hairballs for the next few weeks.

Was. It's dead. :(

• #20

FUCKING SICK.

If there was any justice in the world this teacher would get 10 years minimum.

Slayven

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• #21

Not everybody should have kids, and not everyone should be teaching them

• #22

On the "its fucked up scale" I'd rate it pretty low. Yes, its cruel to feed a puppy to another animal but animals eat each other in the wild all the time, and way too many human beings are too removed from that fact. If you eat meat you should see at least the process, catch and kill an animal yourself, etc so you respect the fact that what you are eating was once alive and wasting it is disrespectful towards the animal.

Still I had no idea turtles eat animals or that the wildlife authorities would seize and kill the turtle because its non invasive, sounds like everything is kinda fucked up. Its cruel to the puppy to murder it like that but I sorta respect the teacher for the idea behind his demonstration but he really didn't think it through and it was ultimately a really dumb idea.

When I was growing up I belonged to the boy scouts and we regularly went hunting and fishing and every person really learned to respect where our food comes from.

• #23

... why did they kill the turtle?

I mean, this is pretty fucked up, but that was basically just an animal doing what it does.

• #24

FUCKING SICK.

If there was any justice in the world this teacher would get 10 years minimum.

Lol that's absurd

• #25

What is the difference between this and feeding a rat to a snake or a chicken to an alligator? Do dogs receive some kind of special protection under the law?

Dogs evolved as a symbiotic species with humans and we owe them more than that.

ColdSun

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• #26

Don't create new threads only for reaction/shock values

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