From Working with the Cat Welfare Society (in Singapore):

AN AIR-CON technician pleaded guilty in the Community Court to torturing a cat and was jailed for eight weeks yesterday.

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He tied a wire noose around its neck and lifted the wire, hanging the cat by the neck. Every time the cat lost consciousness, Wong would revive it by massaging its chest.

He repeated his cruel game until the cat could not be revived.

Removing the wire noose, he grabbed the cat by the neck and bashed its body against the wall several times. He threw it on the floor and kept kicking it before driving off.

Wong did not realise all this had been captured on a spy camera in the carpark.

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In passing sentence, District Judge Bala Reddy stressed the seriousness of the offence. He also noted that the psychiatrist who examined Wong was concerned he might abuse people too.

Wong could have been jailed up to a year and fined up to $10,000.

I don’t believe the judge has a clue about the severity of the crime, and this punishment is so detached from the horror of what happened that it makes a mockery of justice.  With undeniable proof on video of the horrendous nature of this man’s unimaginable cruelty and torture of the cat, the severity of the offense warrants only 15% of the maximum jail time, and there’s no fine?

I’m with the SPCA on this one:

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) is upset with the sentence, and will be submitting an appeal to the Attorney-General’s Chambers.

Said the executive officer of the SPCA, Miss Deirdre Moss: “With due respect to the courts, the SPCA thinks the punishment does not fit the crime, and may be sending out the wrong signal that such brutality is tolerated in society.”

And wouldn’t you know it: there’s a strong link between this man and 10 other dead cats found in the same area, felines who also were tortured and killed.  The video cameras in question were actually put up in response to the grisly feline remains that were discovered there during the previous five months.

But we’re to believe this is justice, that this man will somehow learn his lesson?  Even the judge admits it’s likely he would hurt people as easily as he has the cats, so eight weeks in jail for one provable death and 10 strongly suspected deaths, all linked to torture, is an adequate and just sentence?