A South Korean man has been sentenced to 14 months in jail for killing 76 cats in one of many nation’s essentially the most ugly circumstances of animal cruelty in recent years
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HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean man has been sentenced to 14 months in jail for killing 76 cats in one of many nation’s most ugly circumstances of animal cruelty in recent years.
The man, who’s in his 20s, was convicted of violating South Korea’s animal safety regulation final week, the Changwon District Court in southeastern South Korea mentioned Tuesday. The court docket didn’t determine the person.
The man went on a cat-killing spree between December 2022 and September 2023 on account of a deep hatred of the animal that he started harboring after different cats scratched his automotive, based on a court docket verdict seen by The Associated Press.
He had caught stray cats and adopted others from on-line websites earlier than strangling some to dying 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 careworn that the sentence nonetheless mirrored the truth that the person had no prison 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 emphasizes the importance of passing the Civil Act amendment that will legally recognize animals as living beings and further strengthen their protection in law,” Seo added.
