If we let one child get away with the cruel treatment of one domesticated animal in one single state, then we open the door, allowing all children nationwide to engage in such felonious practices on many other animals, all in clear and direct violation of the Animal Cruelty Enforcement (ACE) Act of 2020. 

On April 28th, in Tate County of Mississippi, a 12-year old child confessed to torturing a dog by tying an electrical cord around its neck and setting its face on fire. Shamefully, under the statutes of Mississippi, no minor is to ever face trial in juvenile court for any such crime, nor be given fair sentences of any such punishment or penalty, as long as the victim is merely an animal, even if it belongs to your next door neighbor. Before this subject ever leads to political debates on the hypocrisies of inhumanities within America’s legal system, such as the poaching of endangered species, the butchering of livestock, the skinning of alligators, the dissection of frogs, or even the medical experiments on exotic creatures, the central fact remains that the child’s actions are not the same, whatsoever. Yet both the child and the parents remain forever shielded with automatic immunity from federal law under the Great Seal of Mississippi. In the heart of state legislation alone, their law is counted as both rightful and reasonable, but in the heart of our nation as a whole, it constitutes as both immoral and unjust. As fairly reminded from the words of Saint Augustine, “An unjust law is no law at all”.

Just laws are established accordingly from human experience, through which unfolds empathy, in order to raise the levels of dignities that exist within human beings. Parents are therefore given the responsibilities to not only raise their children to become healthy and intellectual, but to also pass down their examples as law abiding citizens, in order to obtain prosperity. Otherwise a citizen that breaks the law to inflict pain for pleasure, lacks the power of dignity. Any form of government - local, state, or federal, that dares to look the other way from such a crime, would might as well let the rest of Mississippi forever remain as the darkest state of the Deep South, as it once was during the atrocities of American Lynching. So as we stick to the subject on the cruelties of animals, a clear message must be given to all parents across the United States that letting their own children act on such violent behaviors against the will of a creature - pet, wild, endangered, or stray, is completely unacceptable. A speedy trial for adults and juveniles alike is not just the civic duties of the people, it is also the civil rights of the same people. Therefore, we the petitioners move the motion that while the parents should be given reasonable fines and penalties for their child’s actions, the child alone should be given a short term sentence into a juvenile house of corrections, along with community service that involves taking proper care of animals. Furthermore, when all is said and done, after the child finishes paying those debts to society, the whole family should be assigned into mandatory social counseling. 

Let every Magnolia blossom with dignity and nobility. Let the Father of Waters breathe in peace and prosperity. God Bless Mississippi, God Bless America.