They turn out serial killers like So CAl turns out whores. First BTK, then this:

WICHITA, Kansas (AP) -- A sixth-grade boy has admitted he stabbed to death a mother duck named "Lucy" and her two ducklings.

Students at Wilbur Middle School had been monitoring the mother duck and ducklings, making sure no one disturbed the nest in a grassy creek bed. Their lifeless, mutilated bodies were found this week, stabbed with a pencil.

An announcement over the school's public address system brought the sixth-grade boy's admission that he killed the mother duck, whom students had named Lucy, and the two ducklings. School officials said he had talked about the act to classmates and did not understand why it was wrong.

The boy was suspended Wednesday. His return to the school will hinge on a hearing.

School officials were responding "the way we do whenever we believe that a child might be a risk to himself or others," said Liz McGinness, who coordinates the district's mental health crisis team.

"We really don't mince words on this," she said. "We know that animal cruelty is a very serious, significant behavior. We will be following up with the parents to be very clear that they seek outside mental health care for this child."

Mark Rankin, assistant director of law enforcement for the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks said officials may decide not to charge the boy because of his age.

An adult could face a $250 fine and up to seven days in jail for killing the bird, in addition to animal cruelty charges, which carry up to $10,000 in fines and up to a year in jail, he said.

Mallard ducks are protected by federal and state laws. It is illegal to kill them this time of year, out of season.

"Even though they are a huntable species, there is a legal method of take, of which using a pencil is not one of them," said Bob Gress, director of the Great Plains Nature Center.

Parents, counselors and school officials worried that the killing could signal serious problems in a child's life.

Tony Ruark, a Wichita psychologist who works with children, said a thorough evaluation is appropriate in such a case. He said animal cruelty can lead to more violent acts.

WOW.... just wow... what an awful thing to do. Didn't Jeff Dahmer do this kind of shit when he was a kid?

I use to go to school with a kid that liked to hang stray cat's from a tree by thier necks. or he would bury them up to thier necks in sand so only thier heads were sticking out...and take a golf driver and see how far he could launch its head...Yea now he is in Iraq killing Arabs...

Don't forget John E. Robinson was also from Kansas.

I say kill the kid now. Save the the tax payers thousands of thousands of dollars in the future and more importantly, other animals. It will only be a matter of time before he moves on to people.

Animal cruelty like this usually figures in the early years of most serial killers...it's the classic 'red flag'.

I grew up in Kansas. I left when I was 17, never to return. I never missed it.

maybe he'll have an understanding father teach him how to kill only bad people like ala Dexter

I've lived in Kansas my whole life. It's all the damn smarmy Wizard of Oz cracks. No one remembers that In Cold Blood took place in Kansas too. After the 5,000th time you have to deal with a non-Kansan telling you to say hello to Dorothy and Toto for them anyone can crack. It's a motherfuckin movie you twits they are not real people. Hey King and Raoul has anyone told you guys to say hello to Travis Bickle and Ratso Rizzo lately?

Kansas also has some of the finest, freshest, and cleanest big tittied Anglo-Saxon girls this side of the Mississippi. No lie.

"he had talked about the act to classmates and did not understand why it was wrong."

Stab him with a pencil a few times and then see if he gets it.

I forgot these make some natives a bit jittery too.

On the bright side, in the event of a nuclear holocaust Kansas is precisely the place to be.

Jericho

The SportSwami is also from Kansas.

Looking at the news, is there even a Kansas anymore? I figured it'd been wiped off the map over the weekend.

It's still here it's just underwater. Someplaces got 4 inches of rain in an hour. Here in Topeka they had almost 500 water rescues this morning. It is kind of ironic that Greensburg gets put on the national map by being blown off of it.

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In a situation like Greensburg, what are they going to do? The whole fucking place is just gone. There's only rubble. Is there any point in rebuilding there?

In years to come, old men will stand there, wave their arms at the surrounding country and say "I remember when this used to be all houses"