posted on Jun, 8 2011 @ 01:21 PM
Very disturbing. I lost a hutch full of baby rabbits and the parents were also attacked by large rats when I was a kid. The rats chewed through the
stockade fence and ripped the wire right off the hutch! The thing is, though we were asleep, we heard the commotion (rabbits can squeal loud) from
inside our brick and stucco house with windows closed, and ran out in time to chase off the rats and at least save the adult rabbits, as well as
confirm that the rats did the attacks. So I can't imagine how it is possible that rats could attack a three year old child and the parents would not
be alerted. Surely that poor child must have screamed and thrashed around a fair bit. A three year old is not an infant. My own would scream bloody
murder and cause a commotion simply for getting shampoo in her eyes at bath time. Maybe the parents could not have prevented her death but I would
think they would come into the room in time to catch the rats in the act and be certain instead of having to guess it was rats. Maybe it's not fair
to judge by a western style of living but I can't help but think their story is fishy.
As for the elderly woman, that I can understand. Poor dear. And the infant. Goodness, teen mom or not, some people are too selfish and stupid at any
age and in any culture to be parents. Her child was doomed from the start. Rats are intelligent, strong and vicious. But so are humans and if the
rats hadn't gotten that baby, predators of another kind might have eventually, given that child was likely to be left unattended a lot in its sad
life.