Absolutely no excuse for their behavior, but some of the responses here are just as sick.
Those kids need to be sentenced to working with wild animals for an extended time.
Their parents need the ads kicking for raising them without ethics and compassion.

the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~