Honk News– A sick Ohio woman who killed and ate a cat received a one-year jail sentence on Monday after an angry judge chastised her for the horrible stomach-turning deed.
“To me, you present quite a danger to our community,” Stark County Common Pleas Judge Frank Forchione told Allexis Ferrell, 27, the Massillon Independent reported.
“This is repulsive to me. I mean, that anyone would do this to an animal. And an animal’s like a child. I don’t know if you understand that or not,” the judge said. “I can’t express the disappointment, shock, disgust that this crime has brought to me.
“I don’t know what could prompt anyone to want to eat a cat.”
He then sentenced Ferrell, who had already pled guilty to criminal animal cruelty.
The case made national headlines in September, one month after Ferrell was arrested, during a frenzy over President-elect Donald Trump’s now-debunked claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield were eating local pets.
Officials stated that Ferrell is not an immigrant, and her case is unrelated to that assertion.
Disturbing police bodycam footage from the Aug. 16 incident shows Ferrell on all fours outside eating the cat as terrified neighbors watch and Canton policemen approach after receiving a 911 call.
“What did you do?” one cop is heard asking. “Why did you kill the cat?”
On Monday, the judge described Ferrell as a national shame.
“You’ve embarrassed this county,” the judge said. “You’ve embarrassed this nation. More importantly, you’ve embarrassed yourself.”
Stark County prosecutor Chelsea Small told The Post on Monday that the one-year sentence for the cat-eating incident will be added to a separate 18-month term Ferrell received for two prior crimes: a 2019 theft case and a child endangerment conviction last year.
“It’s one of the most disturbing cases that I’ve seen as a prosecutor,” Small said of the cat incident.
According to defense counsel Stephen Kandel, “it’s clear that [Ferrell] has an issue with drugs and alcohol, through her evaluation, through her past history.”
He stated that he has arranged for his client to receive inpatient therapy upon her release.