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Case #14356 Rating: 1.7 out of 5 (30 votes)
Cat tortured, kicked, burned, drowned
Parchment, MI (US)Incident Date: Tuesday, Feb 26, 2008
County: Kalamazoo
Charges: Felony CTA
Disposition: Convicted
Defendant/Suspect: Terri Stimmel
A blind Parchment woman has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and three years of probation after being convicted of killing and torturing her roommate's cat.
An investigation revealed that the cat had been stomped on, its ribs were broken, and the cat's ears and whiskers had also been singed. Terri Stimmel, of Parchment, claimed that she had drowned the cat in the bathtub and then put it in the dryer to dry because her attempts to dry it with a towel were not working. She ended up leaving the cat's body on her roommate's bed.
Stimmel made a statement to the police admitting that she had killed four other cats, a bird and a hamster.
In addition to probation and jail time; Stimmel is to undergo a mental-health evaluation and testing, she will not be allowed to have pets of her own or to be in a place where pets are kept and she cannot be alone with anyone under the age of 17.
Reports say that Stimmel said she doesn't hate animals; she just gets impulses. References« MI State Animal Cruelty Map
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