A Bronx man was arrested for viciously beating up his cat, knocking out two of its teeth, singing its whiskers and crushing one of its paws, officials said.
Robert Cabassa Jr., 32, a concert promoter and former Latin King, was charged with aggravated animal cruelty, a felony, said Joseph Pentangelo, a special agent with the ASPCA.
On April 15, Cabassa, a party promoter, pounded on his 7-month-old cat, named "Tuesday", until area residents reported it to officials, Pentangelo said. "It appears to have been a prolonged beating," said Pentangelo, who added that the cat's right paw was "smashed."
Investigators responded that evening and took Tuesday, an orange domestic shorthair, to the ASPCA Bergh Memorial Animal Hospital in Manhattan, where he is recovering, Pentangelo said.
At 1:10 p.m. on April 22, Cabassa was arrested at his home. He told investigators that he repeatedly kicked and beat the cat because he was a first-time pet owner, Pentangelo said. Case Updates| Robert Cabassa was sentenced to nine months behind bars. In addition to the nine-month sentence, Justice John Byrne ordered Cabassa to serve a concurrent term of five months for violating the terms of his parole from a previous forgery conviction. He also was barred from owning a pet for five years. | Source: NY Daily News - May 19, 2005
Update posted on Oct 19, 2005 - 2:48PM |
Robert Cabassa pleaded guilty to beating a 6-month-old kitten because he thought it had urinated on his computer, according to prosecutors. Cabassa assaulted the kitten while on parole for a forgery conviction, Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson's office said in a news release. The kitten suffered a fractured eye socket and had its teeth knocked out.
Cabassa's arrest on an animal cruelty charge violated the terms of his parole, so he was to serve the remaining five months of a 1 1/2- to three-year prison term on the forgery charge, prosecutors said.
Cabassa pleaded guilty to one count of torturing and injuring an animal. He faces nine months in prison, which would run at the same time as the forgery sentence, prosecutors said. Sentencing was scheduled for May 31. | Source: 1010Wins - May 19
Update posted on May 20, 2005 - 9:54PM |
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