Upstate Man Charged with Torturing Kitten, Making Video
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP/1010 WINS) -- Police are accusing a 22-year-old Syracuse man of hanging a four-month-old kitten and making a video of the animal struggling.
Joanne Cichy told police she couldn't find her kitten when she returned home Halloween night after going trick-or-treating with her children. The next day she found a video on her digital camera showing the kitten hanging from the apartment door with a belt around its neck.
Police said the video showed the kitten struggling before going motionless and Cichy's live-in boyfriend, Rascell Williams, stepping in and out of the video.
Williams was charged with unjustifiable animal cruelty, a misdemeanor. Police did not know if he has an attorney.
The injured kitten was later found, alive, under the porch.
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