A sick Ohio girl who killed and ate a cat was hit with a one-year jail sentence on Monday as a livid choose slammed her for the repulsive stomach-turning act.
“To me, you current fairly a hazard to our group,” Stark County Widespread Pleas Choose Frank Forchione informed Allexis Ferrell, 27, the Massillon Impartial reported.
“That is repulsive to me. I imply, that anybody would do that to an animal. And an animal’s like a toddler. I don’t know in case you perceive that or not,” the choose stated. “I can’t categorical the frustration, shock, disgust that this crime has delivered to me.
“I don’t know what might immediate anybody to wish to eat a cat.”
He then sentenced Ferrell, who pleaded responsible to a felony cost of animal cruelty.
The case drew nationwide headlines in September, when information of the case unfold one month after Ferrell was busted — in the midst of the frenzy over a since-refuted declare by President-elect Donald Trump that Haitian immigrants in Springfield have been consuming native pets.
Officers stated Ferrell will not be an immigrant and her case will not be tied to that declare.
Disturbing police bodycam footage of the Aug. 16 incident exhibits Ferrell on all fours outdoor consuming the cat as horrified neighbors seemed on and Canton cops arrived after getting a 911 name.
“What did you do?” one cop is heard asking. “Why did you kill the cat?”
In courtroom Monday, the choose known as Ferrell a nationwide embarrassment.
“You’ve embarrassed this county,” the choose stated. “You’ve embarrassed this nation. Extra importantly, you’ve embarrassed your self.”
Stark County prosecutor Chelsea Small informed The Submit Monday that the one-year sentence for the cat-eating incident will probably be tacked on to a separate 18-month sentence Ferrell was hit with for 2 prior crimes — a 2019 theft case and a toddler endangerment case from final 12 months.
“It’s one of the disturbing instances that I’ve seen as a prosecutor,” Small stated of the cat incident.
Protection lawyer Stephen Kandel informed the Massillon Impartial that “it’s clear that [Ferrell] has a problem with medicine and alcohol, by her analysis, by her previous historical past.”
He stated he has organized for his shopper to endure inpatient therapy after her launch.
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