Poor kitties.
I hope that mama cat is somewhere safe, and that the sicko who did this rots in hell.
madmax, sometimes shelters either don't have room, or they will euthanize the animals if they're feral or if they're not adopted out in a certain period of time (kittens tend to get adopted, but few people want to adopt a full-grown cat). So I can see where people might have been hesitant to call a shelter. Still,