Three week-old foal is beaten to death

The Galway Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA) is appealing to the people of Castlepark Estate to turn over the thugs who beat a foal to death and set fire to the three-week-old animal while its mother looked on.
In one the most horrific case of torture the society has ever come across, the foal was attacked with sticks and stones by a group of young teens and left for dead in a field near Merlin Woods last weekend.
Some time later the foal was set alight and its carcass taken away. The mare was also viciously attacked before being removed.
The GSPCA got a tip-off about the incident from a distressed onlooker and its officers were immediately dispatched to the scene. However, all that remained on Saturday evening were the ashes where the carcass had been burnt.
They received a photo from the person who had witnessed the gang attacking the helpless animal while its distraught mother was held back by others.
Some time later the witness returned to find the foal’s remains had been destroyed.
Margaret O’Sullivan of the GSPCA is urging the community of Castlepark to hand over information to them in confidence in order to identify the culprits.
“It’s just horrific. The most worrying thing to us is if kids take that as normal behaviour, well what else are they capable of? It’s well known in cases of mass murder in America that as children they abused animals,” she exclaimed.
“We need people who have any information to ring ourselves confidentially. It’s very serious. Any person willing to cover this up is as bad as they are. I’d be concerned the kids who did this might turn around and do it to a human who pisses them off.”

For more on this story, see the Galway City Tribune.