A sentencing listening to for a lady discovered responsible of torturing and killing a number of cats has been adjourned as soon as once more so attorneys and a decide can assess a psychiatric report that describes her as “psychopathic.”
On Tuesday, Justice Mike Dinkel agreed to adjourn sentencing arguments for Aleeta Raugust and a potential penalty choice to Sept. 14, calling the psychiatric report “heavy duty” with “very serious conclusions” that have to be totally reviewed by him, the prosecution and the defence.
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He famous the report, which he’d partly reviewed, concluded Raugust was psychopathic.
It’s the second time in practically three months the case has been delayed resulting from incomplete work associated to Raugust’s psychiatric evaluation.
Raugust, 26, was ordered to endure a psychiatric evaluation after pleading responsible in March to 10 expenses — 9 of them involving animal abuse, in addition to a single rely of threatening to break property.
And the lady informed police she might have killed extra cats, admitting to throwing some into the river, Greenwood mentioned.
She informed police that she normally didn’t identify the cats she adopted as a result of she deliberate to kill them.
“I’m getting so angry and I’m starting to fantasize about hurting people when I get angry. And I don’t want to fantasize about that,” the cat killer informed investigators, in response to an account relayed to courtroom by Greenwood final spring.
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“I have a plan if I’m released from here and that’s why doctors won’t let me go,” the prosecutor quoted from Raugust’s assertion.
The agreed assertion additionally says that whereas she was on the Peter Lougheed Hospital final January, Raugust informed her probation officer that she needed to set fireplace to her former residence at 515 twentieth Ave. S.W. so she may watch its occupants burn.
Raugust had informed hospital employees she was suicidal.
She’s at present in custody on the Calgary Remand Centre.
In December 2021, Raugust contacted a veterinarian, saying she had a kitten with injured legs at her home within the southwest neighbourhood of Somerset however refused to deliver the cat in for therapy.
She later admitted to hanging the Siamese kitten with a stick, capturing hairspray into its eyes and breaking its legs, protecting the animal’s mouth so her roommates wouldn’t hear.
“I can’t unhear what I did. It haunts me,” she informed a detective.
“I don’t know how to get past the guilt.”
The Crown is looking for a sentence of eight to 10 years in jail whereas the defence has but to supply a place on a penalty.
Animal-rights activists attended Tuesday’s temporary listening to, as did Raugust, who sat quietly within the prisoner’s field.
As she left the courtroom, the lady waved at her grandmother, who was additionally current on the listening to.
— With recordsdata from Kevin Martin
