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Allexis Ferrell, 27, was jailed for a year for killing and eating a cat in Ohio, US.
Judge Frank Forchione called Ferrell’s actions “repulsive” and a “danger to our community”.
Ferrell’s sentence will be added to an 18-month sentence for theft and child endangerment.
A woman from Ohio who killed and ate a cat has been jailed for a year.
Allexis Ferrell, 27, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of animal cruelty on Monday.
During her sentencing, at Stark County Common Pleas, the judge said he was “disgusted” by Ferrell’sactions and she had “embarrassed this county”.
Ferrell was arrested in late August after she killed the animal by “stomping its head then eating the cat” on the grounds of a Canton housing estate where she lived, according to a police report.
Ferrell stayed silent as the officer contacted the station, saying: “Will you call the Humane Society to see if they’ll come pick this cat up? It’s deceased.”
Allexis Ferrell stayed silent as officers arrested her next to the body of the cat.
The case made national headlines in September in the midst of a media frenzy after Donald Trump falsely claimed Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s pets.
The claims were followed by a spate of 30 false bomb threats in the city that officials blamed on fear and division sowed by misinformation about immigrants.
‘Danger to community’
Officials said Ferrell was not an immigrant and her case is not tied to that claim.
She is not of Haitian descent and was born in America, they said.
During Ferrell’s sentencing, Judge Frank Forchione said she presented “quite a danger to our community”.
“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.”
“You’ve embarrassed this county,” the judge continued. “You’ve embarrassed this nation. More importantly, you’ve embarrassed yourself.”
The New York Post reported that Ferrell’s cat-eating sentence will be added to a separate 18-month sentence for theft and child endangerment.
