South Korean sentenced to 14 months in jail for killing 76 cats
By HYUNG-JIN KIM
Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for killing 76 cats in one of the country’s the most gruesome cases of animal cruelty in recent years. The Changwon District Court in southeastern South Korea said that the man, who is in his 20s, was convicted of violating South Korea’s animal protection law last week. It says the man went on a cat-killing spree due to a deep hatred of the animal that he began harboring after other cats scratched his car. The court says the man had caught stray cats and adopted others from online sites to kill them between December 2022 and September 2023.
