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- A South Korean man has been sentenced to 14 months successful situation for sidesplitting 76 cats.
- The man, whose personality remains undisclosed, was recovered blameworthy of violating South Korea’s animal protection law.
- He appealed nan ruling, seeking a imaginable simplification aliases overturning of nan sentence.
A South Korean man has been sentenced to 14 months successful situation for sidesplitting 76 cats successful 1 of nan country's astir gruesome cases of animal cruelty successful caller years.
The man, who is successful his 20s, was convicted of violating South Korea’s animal protection law past week, nan Changwon District Court successful southeastern South Korea said Tuesday. The tribunal did not place nan man.
The man went connected a cat-killing spree betwixt December 2022 and September 2023 owed to a heavy hatred of nan animal that he began harboring aft different cats scratched his car, according to a tribunal verdict seen by The Associated Press.
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He had caught stray cats and adopted others from online sites earlier strangling immoderate to decease and sidesplitting others pinch scissors, nan tribunal bid said. He killed 1 feline by moving it complete pinch a car, nan tribunal said.
South Korean constabulary are seen connected March 6, 2019, successful Seoul, South Korea. A South Korean man has been sentenced to 14 months successful situation for sidesplitting 76 cats successful 1 of nan country's astir gruesome cases of animal cruelty successful caller years. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
The tribunal ruled that nan situation condemnation was unavoidable because he many times committed "indescribably cruel" crimes successful a premeditated manner.
It stressed that nan condemnation still reflected nan truth that nan man had nary criminal records and repented his crimes, adding that nan man's unspecified intelligence wellness position was recovered to beryllium a motive for his crimes.
The man appealed nan ruling.
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"The condemnation reflects Korean society’s expanding interest for animal use and intolerance for senseless cruelty specified arsenic this," said Borami Seo, a head of nan South Korea agency of nan Humane Society International.
"This cruelty lawsuit besides emphasizes nan value of passing nan Civil Act amendment that will legally admit animals arsenic surviving beings and further fortify their protection successful law," Seo added.
