Sadistic cat torturer imprisoned for 2.5 years. NOT LONG ENOUGH.

NEWS AND COMMENT:  Kacper B, a Polish man living in Poland, was described in court as a sadistic cat torturer. He was entirely aware of what he was doing. He tortured his girlfriend's cat to the point of death. He uploaded videos and pictures of his torture to the Internet. 

It appears that he felt immune to prosecution but Internet sleuths were able to track him down and eventually he was prosecuted in the criminal courts for animal cruelty.

A court in Poland sparked outrage after sentencing Kacper B. (pictured) to less than the maximum five years after he was found guilty of 'extreme cruelty' towards animals

The case is reminiscent of the Don't F*** With Cats case in North America where Luka Magnotta is now incarcerated in a Canadian jail for life for murder.

The similarity is in respect of Internet sleuths tracking down the perpetrator. I don't want to go into great detail of what he did to his girlfriend's cat. It was horrendous abuse including punching the cat to the point of unconsciousness while being hung up by the hind legs.

And to upload videos and images to the Internet is a sign of madness frankly. The man must be a sociopath or psychopath or a combination of both.

We must not forget his girlfriend, the cat's owner, who apparently allowed the abuse to happen and she, too, was tried in the criminal courts and has received, on conviction, a 10 month jail sentence suspended for three years "for failing to stop the abuse".

The cat in question is still very ill apparently and suffers from what appears to be permanent damage to their health. The cat has been placed in the care of a temporary home i.e. a foster home.

The prosecutor in court was outraged at the short sentence. She demanded a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment and questioned the judge as to what needs to be done by a criminal to receive the five year penalty.

The prosecuting lawyer appears to be more concerned about her appearance that she is about anything else but that is another matter.

The criminal in question, was also found guilty of possessing child pornography. When he first appeared in court his disdain for the proceedings was clearly evident when he wore a headband with a pair of toy cat ears and told the court that he was "in a hurry because he had to feed his new girlfriend's cats."

The trial took place in the seaside town of seaside town of Gdynia in Poland .

Comment: there are numerous instances of mentally disturbed men (yes, it is always men) wishing to show off their animal cruelty tendencies by posting images, normally videos, on social media. It is extraordinary that they feel the need to upload evidence which will ultimately lead to their prosecution and conviction in a criminal court. 

Perhaps they feel totally immune to being arrested and tried for animal abuse crimes. It's indicative of their mental state that they feel they can get away with it in such a callous and misguided way.

Or, perhaps they do get away with it sometimes and it only takes a concerted effort by animal advocates and concerned people to track down the man as happened in this instance.

Separately, there is an ongoing highly concerning matter of a gang of Chinese cat abuses and torturers operating in China killing and torturing cats. They are well known. They are uploading images to the Internet on Chinese social media websites and getting away with it. The world is trying to stop them. But despite difficult to track down these miscreants, deviant mad people. Click the link below for more on this.

Activists fight back against nauseating Chinese cat snuff film gang

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Prison in Chile where the inmates look after 100 cats (with problems!)

There is a prison in Chile where the inmates look after almost 100 cats. It is Chile's largest and oldest prison in which there are 4,900 inmates. It is the  El Centro de Detención Preventiva (CDP) Santiago Sur, better known as the old Santiago penitentiary and locally, simply ‘la Peni’.  It was built 180 years ago.

The image is by MikeB based on pictures provided by Metro.co.uk who I presume got them from HSI.

The cats roam around inside the prison with the inmates. How did the cats arrive at the prison? Well, I'm told that they had a rodent problem and administrators decided to introduce cats to the prison to keep them down.

The problem was that they had no sterilisation programme and the cats that they adopted had not been sterilised. They procreated until the numbers grew to almost 100. A small oversight :) . But perhaps there is a silver lining.

The cats appear to be helping the inmates. Looking after them gives them a sense of responsibility. And cats of course are non-judgemental unlike society and the administrators of the prison.

Many of the prisoners have a compassionate and close bond with a cat or cats and they join them in their cells. They sleep on makeshift cat beds.

The cats are fed with leftovers from human food. The inmates can't bring in cat food. This would appear to be a potentially serious problem because human food is okay for a short time but over a long period its unbalanced nature, lacking in certain nutrients, may cause illness in domestic cats.

Sometimes the inmates forego their food to feed the cats. Another problem is with pooing and peeing as you might imagine. I don't think that there are any litter trays and so there is a problem with poop and urine.

Thirdly, they can't take the cats to a vet if they become ill. This is apparently the major concern of the prisoners: the lack of access to any veterinary care.

And it appears that the Chilean Protection charity, Felinnos Foundation, proposed visiting the prison to help deal with these problems and to give the cats a much needed check-up.

The administrators were hesitant about the idea. They relented because of the ongoing hygiene problems with poop and pee and opened the doors to the charity. The Humane Society International helped organise the visit.

And at this time, the authorities have begun to understand that the cats are important to the inmates. They rely upon them for emotional support. And the security guards are helping as well.

A Humane Society International worker, said that the living conditions at the prison were extremely challenging for both the inmates and the cats. Some cats were suffering from health problems. These included the typical ear and eye infections i.e. upper respiratory tract infections. 

And apparently the cats harboured fleas and ticks and they had worms and skin rashes combined with malnutrition and wounds. The wounds were acquired through fighting. Quite a difficult situation in terms of health which I guess is to be expected under the circumstances.

The charity provided healthcare for the cats over three days with the cooperation of the country's national prison service.

There were given full check-ups and they were spayed and neutered so that they could no longer procreate. They were also vaccinated against rabies.

The cats were then reunited with their prisoner caregivers after a night of isolation and observation.

Further, the inmates were given some advice about how to care for their feline companions in this very particular environment.

The prison is very overcrowded with double the number of inmates that should be there. The Humane Society International worker, Daniela, said that "It's heart-warming to see the special bond and commitment that cats offer their guardians through their company and emotional support."

Comment: I've never heard of such an arrangement. I've heard of cats in prison but never to this extent and it's nice to know that the authorities have allowed the Humane Society to become involved in the interest of the welfare of the cats whose presence is obviously beneficial to the inmates but at a price: their health.

The question now is whether the authorities are going to put in place some better arrangements such as adding cat litter trays, ensuring that proper cat food is available and allowing the cats access to veterinary care. These are big changes to make and at the moment I don't have information as to whether these have been arranged.

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