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As my noble friend pointed out, people often begin by torturing animals and then move on to stronger things, whether it is rape or killing. In fact, I recall that James Bulger’s killers had a track record of pulling the heads off baby pigeons and tying rabbits to railway lines to let the trains run over them, and they displayed a general animal abuse motive. That was not unique to those killers, because it happens in thousands of cases: people start off with animal abuse and animal sexual abuse and move on to carrying out the same abuse against humans.