Woman Sentenced to Night in Woods for Dumping Kittens
Snow and temperatures in the 20s are expected Wednesday night when a northeast Ohio woman begins a 15-day jail sentence by spending a night in the woods.
A judge in Painesville came up with the unusual punishment for Michelle Murray, 25, who pleaded guilty last month to charges that she abandoned 35 kittens in two Lake County Metroparks.
The animals were recovered but many had upper respiratory infections, and nine died.
Judge Michael Cicconetti said he wanted Murray to feel what the kittens experienced.
Source: Local6.com.
Damnum Absque Injuria feels that the punishment more than fitted the crime (as does this author), Funny Pets Blog feels a night was less than adequate, Randomized Drivel also writes about this, The Smoking Gun has the court document displayed on its post, and finally Cleveland.com has a longer post on this, including a snippet by the sentenced:
“But it’s inhumane for the judge to send me out in the cold with nothing but the clothes on my back,” she said.
Strange, you’d think it would he inhumane to leave 35 kittens out in the wood to die of exposure…
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