Another cat killer in CT...

[Karen]

He applied for AR and Psych AR.

What's AR?

[moosmom]

Accelerated Rehabilitation. It's a program for first time offenders. If at the end of his AR period, he's a good boy, his record would've been expunged (erased).

The one thing we didn't want was for him to have no record, so this is a milestone!!! They passed a new law in CT that second time animal abusers face harsher prison time.

[Karen]

Thanks for the explanation, sounds good!

[momcat]

Can we clone that wonderful judge? While she's definitely needed on the bench for these cases, it would be great if she taught animal welfare in judge school.

A few years ago there was an animal cruelty case here in New Jersey: on one of the coldest nights of winter, a woman abandoned a cat in the woods. Someone witnessed it and she was arrested. When the case went to court, the judge sentenced her to spend one night alone in the woods where the poor kitty was abandoned. She was taken to the spot by the state police who stayed there all night to make absolutely sure she served the sentence on what turned out to be a brutally cold night.

It's great to know there are judges out there who take this type of crime seriously. The animals need more like them!

[phesina]

That's really good to hear about judges like that. Here's hoping for many more. And for more people in general to take animal abuse as a serious crime.