{"id":710786,"date":"2026-06-02T21:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/710786\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T21:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:05:14","slug":"child-in-manitoba-charged-over-video-showing-dogs-being-struck-with-axe-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/710786\/","title":{"rendered":"Child in Manitoba charged over video showing dogs being struck with axe &#8211; Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A video showing dogs being hit with an axe, resulting in at least one animal\u2019s death, has led to a boy in northwestern Manitoba being charged, police say.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The boy from Opaskwayak Cree Nation was arrested after officers were made aware of the video late last week, according to a news release from the Manitoba First Nations Police Service.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA male youth (was) using an axe to strike numerous dogs,\u201d the release said, describing the footage.<\/p>\n<p>It said the video was sent to other kids in a group chat.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The 12-year-old boy was arrested and charged with causing unnecessary suffering to animals, the police said, adding \u201cmore charges are expected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was conditionally released from custody, the release added.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A video showing dogs being hit with an axe, resulting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[33749,49,48,2169,22073],"class_list":["post-710786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-animal-abuse","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}