A person is dealing with a courtroom prosecution on an animal cruelty cost for endangering the lifetime of a “small black kitten” in Dublin.
Gheorghe Negoita, 44, of Belgard Road, Tallaght, appeared earlier than Judge Stephanie Coggans on Friday.
Bridewell Garda Aine McQuillan informed the choose she had charged him earlier this month with an offence below part 12 of the Animal, Health and Welfare Act.
The cost alleges that an incident took place on October eleventh, 2022, at central Dublin’s North King Street and that he endangered “the lifetime of a small black kitten”.
The waste assortment employee has but to point a plea and might be granted authorized help as soon as he supplies a press release of his means.
Garda McQuillan informed Dublin District Court that the defendant, who listened to the proceedings with the assistance of a Romanian interpreter, “was given a real copy of the cost sheet and made no reply to cost”.
The officer utilized to the courtroom to impose a bail time period that required him to not have “any protected animal in his care.”
But his solicitor objected as a result of the accused had already been allowed bail with out situations when he was charged at a Garda station earlier this month.
Judge Coggans agreed that he was on “station bail” and she or he didn’t impose extra situations however ordered the accused to look once more in April.
No information referring to the alleged incident had been outlined in the course of the transient listening to.
A conviction below the animal cruelty legal guidelines on the District Court degree can appeal to a most six-month sentence and a €5,000 superb. The Circuit Court can impose harsher penalties.
Prosecution for the offence can even end in an individual being banned from having an animal of their care.