Gotta disagree with everyone. I'm not going to suggest that the cat's life is equal to a human life, but the laws are in place to prevent and hopefully discourage "a cruel death or an excessive infliction of unnecessary pain or suffering."
Being punched/kicked in the head and stomach and then fed to a gator is about as excessive and unnecessary as it gets. If some punk teenage kid did that to my cats, I'd teach the shit-turd meaning of excessive and unnecessary pain and suffering.
He's 14. He should know right from wrong. Let him pay.
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