South Korean jailed 14 months for ‘indescribably cruel’ killing of 76 cats, after his automotive was scratched
A South Korean man has been sentenced to 14 months in jail for killing 76 cats in one of many nation’s most grotesque instances of animal cruelty in recent years.
The man, who’s in his 20s, was convicted of violating South Korea’s animal safety legislation final week, the Changwon District Court in southeastern South Korea mentioned Tuesday. The court docket didn’t establish the person.
The man went on a cat-killing spree between December 2022 and September 2023 as a consequence of a deep hatred of the animal that he started harbouring after different cats scratched his automotive, in line with a court docket verdict seen by Associated Press.
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He had caught stray cats and adopted others from on-line websites earlier than strangling some to loss of life and killing others with scissors, the court docket order mentioned. He killed one cat by operating it over with a automotive, the court docket mentioned.
The court docket dominated that the jail sentence was unavoidable as a result of he repeatedly dedicated “indescribably cruel” crimes in a premeditated method.
It pressured that the sentence nonetheless mirrored the truth that the person had no legal information and repented his crimes, including that the person’s unspecified psychological well being standing was discovered to be a motive for his crimes.
The man appealed the ruling.
“The sentence reflects Korean society’s increasing concern for animal welfare and intolerance for senseless cruelty such as this,” mentioned Borami Seo, a director of the South Korea workplace of the Humane Society International.
“This cruelty case also emphasises the importance of passing the Civil Act amendment that will legally recognise animals as living beings and further strengthen their protection in law,” Seo added.