OREGON – A person was sentenced to 24 months of conditional discharge Tuesday for throwing a cat out of a two-story building in October 2023.
Raymond Haney, 24, was sentenced after pleading responsible to the misdemeanor offense of “cruel treatment” as he appeared along with his legal professional, Ogle County Public Defender William Gibbs, and Assistant State’s Attorney Melissa Voss in entrance of Judge John “Ben” Roe.
Voss informed the courtroom that Haney threw the cat, described as a companion animal, out of an condominium window in a two-story building at 210 Avenue C in Rochelle after it scratched him.
As a part of his sentence, Haney is prohibited from “owning, fostering or caring for domesticated animal.”
He was fined $992, with $478 restitution to be paid to Fixin’ Feral Felines, DeKalb. A tremendous of $439 as a prison evaluation was waived, leaving him with $553 owed. He was ordered to pay the rest of the restitution to the circuit clerk’s workplace by June 1.
In November, Haney was charged with the misdemeanor offense along with two felony counts of aggravated cruelty to an animal. The felony counts mentioned the black-and-white cat, named Oreo, suffered severe accidents, together with a contusion to her lungs and a bruised liver, when hitting the bottom. Those counts have been dismissed as a part of the plea settlement, Voss mentioned.
Conditional discharge is a type of deferred adjudication with probationary situations hooked up. If he fails to observe these situations one other sentence may very well be issued.
