Kitten Killer Ordered to Donate to Animal Shelter
by Charlotte LoBuono
A Brantford, Ontario resident recently was ordered to make a donation of approximately $560 to the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and placed on probation for one year after pleading guilty to intentionally killing a kitten.
Forty-eight-year-old Kenneth Fuller was in addition prohibited from possessing or owning an animal while on probation.
Fuller killed the kitten by strangling her after she scratched him. He was drunk at the time.
Even though the prosecutor and defense attorney recommended that Fuller be ordered to make an approximately $375 donation and placed on probation, Justice Brian Stead stated while pronouncing the sentence that he’d seriously considered imprisonment.
"The judge absolutely should have imposed a jail sentence," said animal activist Harold Chaikin. "He also should have ordered psychological treatment. Fuller obviously has a lot of anger inside of him and may very well attack another animal - or a person - if his feelings aren’t addressed."
© 2003 Animal News Center, Inc.
A Brantford, Ontario resident recently was ordered to make a donation of approximately $560 to the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and placed on probation for one year after pleading guilty to intentionally killing a kitten.
Forty-eight-year-old Kenneth Fuller was in addition prohibited from possessing or owning an animal while on probation.
Fuller killed the kitten by strangling her after she scratched him. He was drunk at the time.
Even though the prosecutor and defense attorney recommended that Fuller be ordered to make an approximately $375 donation and placed on probation, Justice Brian Stead stated while pronouncing the sentence that he’d seriously considered imprisonment.
"The judge absolutely should have imposed a jail sentence," said animal activist Harold Chaikin. "He also should have ordered psychological treatment. Fuller obviously has a lot of anger inside of him and may very well attack another animal - or a person - if his feelings aren’t addressed."
© 2003 Animal News Center, Inc.
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