(Orlando Sentinel. Consider the fundamental difference between seeing a killer whale kill a seal on an ice flow and seeing it kill its trainer in an oceanarium. Is it the circumstances or the fact that the victim is a human that makes us shrug our shoulders at the first one and say "Nature's way" while the second fills us with horror? Certainly Tillikum didn't kill Brancheau because he was hungry, he apparently killed her for emotional reasons. That's what nobody seems willing to recognize. The whale needs help, which he ain't getting.)
A New Hampshire family who witnessed the Feb. 24 death of a killer-whale trainer at SeaWorld Orlando has sued the company in state court in Orlando, claiming their child was traumatized by the event.
The family of 10-year-old Bobby Connell says the boy has been bothered by nightmares ever since seeing trainer Dawn Brancheau battered and drowned by a six-ton killer whale named Tilikum, according to a report about the lawsuit in the New York Daily News.
SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment spokesman Fred Jacobs said the company had just learned of the lawsuit and has not yet reviewed it. He said SeaWorld was contacted in March by a lawyer claiming to represent the Connell family who threatened to have the family appear on Oprah Winfrey's talk show if the company did not "immediately agree to a cash payment."
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