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A 22-year-old Chicago man turned himself in to cops on Monday after he supposedly tortured and killed a minimum of 4 cats, according to cops and regional reports.
Thomas Martel is dealing with 4 felony counts of aggravated cruelty to animals and 2 felony counts of animal abuse, Chicago cops said.
Martel is implicated of fatally drowning, squeezing and mutilating 3 cats in his care, according to an arrest report obtained by FOX 32.
All the kittens Martel supposedly killed were called Shelly, and he would offer the brand-new kittens he acquired the exact same name, regional news reported.
“We’re seeing a pattern of returning once again and once again,” Judge Kelly McCarthy said Tuesday throughout his bail hearing, according to CWB. “Killing an animal, heading out and get a replacement, eliminate that a person, get a replacement, eliminate that a person, get a replacement; and regrettably, this was enabled to continue for a continual amount of time, and various animals lost their lives.”
Chicago officers supposedly discovered 3 kittens in a bag at Martel’s Wicker Park home. Martel’s sweetheart, who submitted a grievance declaring animal cruelty versus him with the Chicago Police Department, said the 22-year-old microwaved the cats prior to packing them into a plastic bag, CWB reported.
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Martel’s sweetheart at first ended up being mindful of the animal abuse after an associate sent her a video of Martel tossing a pillowcase, which obviously included his cat called Shelly, into Lake Michigan, according to CWB.
On May 26, Martel welcomed his sweetheart to his Wicker Park home to see his brand-new kitten, likewise called Shelly. On June 6, while at Martel’s home, the sweetheart supposedly experienced Martel drowning the brand-new kitten while he was greatly intoxicated and taking narcotics.
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On the night his sweetheart gotten in touch with cops, Martel had actually obviously confessed he had actually microwaved 3 kittens and packed them in a plastic bag, which he then concealed in a cabinet. She informed cops she might smell a nasty smell originating from his kitchen area.
Prosecutors said Martel just recently informed his sweetheart that “he took pleasure in killing cats, and he had actually resembled that considering that he was 8 years of ages,” according to CWB Chicago.
Judge McCarthy set his bail at $7,500.
The arrest report obtained by FOX 32 notes that Martel had major psychological health concerns and was taking proposed medication at the time of his arrest.
