A former prison guard was sentenced to a year in jail in March 2002 for crushing five kittens to death in a trash compactor.
Ronald Hunlock's offense was "so offensive and so calculated and so gratuitously cruel it diminishes the humanity of everybody," Justice Kenneth Lange said.
Hunlock, 48, was convicted of aggravated cruelty to animals.
He discovered the newborn kittens and their mother in an inmate's cell at Sing Sing last March and ordered the inmate to put them in the compactor. When the inmate refused, Hunlock did it himself. The mother cat escaped.
"I made a bad decision and I'm sorry," he said.
Defense attorney Daniel Gallivan said Hunlock thought the cats were deathly ill. Case UpdatesIn handing down the sentence, New York State Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Lange called Hunlock's actions "so offensive and so calculated and so gratuitously cruel it diminishes the humanity of everybody." Lange also acknowledged the many letters he has received regarding the case. Ten asked for leniency in sentencing Hunlock. More than 450 asked that he be given the maximum sentence of two years in jail.
Hunlock had been on unpaid leave from his job since being charged. He has now been formally dismissed.
(From ALDF - Update posted on Apr 12, 2002 - 12:00AM |
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