A monk at a temple in Bang Pakong district of Thailand’s eastern province of Chachoengsao was jailed by authorities the other day (Wednesday) and charged with animal cruelty after supposedly eliminating lots of cats.
The arrest followed a problem from Rattiya Tiaotrakul, who works for the Watchdog Thailand Foundation, implicating the 23-year-old monk, Phra Porndanai, of publishing a message on Facebook asking if anybody requires to discover a brand-new home for brown kittens, however later on requested for cats of any colour.
Rattiya declared that she had actually obtained videos revealing the young monk squashing some cats to death and consuming them.
Other monks at the temple, the name of which was kept, supposedly informed the authorities that Phra Porndanai had a fixation with embracing cats from other individuals, however the majority of them quickly vanished.
The monks declare that, on one event, they saw Porndanai in the act of eliminating a cat and were shocked by his conduct, including that the carcasses cats were typically burned or buried during the night.
Porndanai declares that he killed the cats since they were triggering an annoyance. He was defrocked and required to the Bang Pakong district police headquarters to be charged.
Porntharat, among the cat donors, said she provided 5 felines to Porndanai on the condition that he send her photos of them, to make certain that they were being well dealt with.
She said that the monk did not keep his pledge however, after her determination, he later on declared that he provided 3 cats away and kept 2 others, however still declined to supply her with their images.
She included that she was shocked when she discovered the killing of the cats.
