Parents and staff at the Millbrae Nursery School are still reeling from a brutal, violent vandalism attack that included what they called a “ritualistic slaying of animals.”
San Mateo county Sheriff investigators continue
trying to figure out exactly what happened that led to five chickens kept by
the school to be killed over the past weekend.
The school has been in the same location for 82 years and staff
members say they have never seen anything like that before.
Sometime from late Friday night to Sunday night, a person,
or persons kicked through a side gate and broke windows.
According to the director, five chickens were cut open and
killed, in a ritualistic fashion.
“It wasn’t as if they left them in place,” Brigidan
Bogni-Rodriguez said. “They took them all out, lined them up and you could see
where they were cut open.”
The scene was so gruesome that the school chose not to tell
the 48 students what happened.
The children, ranging in age from 2 to 5 years old, were
told the coop was broken and the chickens were taken away while repairs were
being made.
“The way it was done, like the way they were killed and
lined up in a way, and gutted out,” said parent Roland Yrani. “It’s scary, it’s
like, who would do that? Who could be sick enough to do something like this?”
Sheriff investigators have confirmed the breaking and entering
but are still trying to determine if the killings were done by a human or by
wild animals.
They say the animals’ bodies were scattered around the lawn,
but Bogni-Rodriguez believes it was a crime by a person and that makes it
difficult for anyone there to feel safe.
“The fear is not only are we devastated by the violation of
our program, but this person is out there and who knows what will happen next?”
he said.
The school board and parents met Monday and plan more
meeting this week to discuss how to increase safety.
The sheriff’s department is helping them with that and plan
extra patrols in the neighborhood.
Source: NBC Bay Area
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