A waste assortment employee has appeared at Dublin District Court to face an animal cruelty cost for allegedly endangering the lifetime of a “small black kitten”.
Gheorghe Negoita (44), a waste assortment employee with an deal with at Belgard Road, Tallaght, appeared earlier than Judge Stephanie Coggans on Friday.
Garda Aine McQuillan of the Bridewell Garda station instructed the choose she had charged the accused earlier this month with an offence below part 12 of the Animal, Health and Welfare Act.
The cost alleges that an incident took place on October eleventh, 2022, at central Dublin’s North King Street and that the accused endangered “the life of a small black kitten”.
Mr Negoita has but to point a plea and shall be granted authorized support as soon as he gives an announcement of his means.
Garda McQuillan instructed the courtroom that the defendant, who listened to the proceedings with the assistance of a Romanian interpreter, “was given a true copy of the charge sheet and made no reply to charge”.
The officer utilized to the courtroom to impose a bail time period that required him to not have “any protected animal in his care.”
But his solicitor objected as a result of the accused had already been allowed bail with out circumstances when he was charged at a Garda station earlier this month.
Judge Coggans agreed that he was on “station bail” and she or he didn’t impose extra circumstances however ordered the accused to seem once more in April.
No information referring to the alleged incident have been outlined throughout the transient listening to.
A conviction below the animal cruelty legal guidelines on the District Court stage, the offence can appeal to a most six-month sentence and a €5,000 superb. The Circuit Court can impose harsher penalties.
Prosecution for the offence may end in an individual being banned from having an animal of their care.
