Woman ’embarrassed’ the US by killing cat and eating it in front of neighbors
A woman has been hit with a one-year jail sentence for stomping a cat to death and eating it in front of her neighbors.
Allexis Ferrell, 27, was reprimanded by a judge as an embarrassment to the US for the cruel act to a feline outside her home in Canton, Ohio.
‘I don’t know what could prompt anyone to want to eat a cat,’ said Stark County Common Pleas Judge Frank Forchione on Monday, according to the Canton Repository.
’I can’t express the disappointment, shock, disgust that this crime has brought to me.’
Ferrell had the nerve to interrupt the judge during the court proceeding and claim things did not transpire as they seemed.
Forchione fired back that ‘it’s my courtroom’ and ‘my turn to talk’.
‘You’ve embarrassed this county. You’ve embarrassed this nation. More importantly, you’ve embarrassed yourself,’ the judge said.
‘To me, you present quite a danger to our community. This is repulsive to me, I mean, that anyone would do this to an animal. And an animal’s like a child. I don’t know if you understand that or not.’
Ferrell replied: ‘Absolutely.’
The woman pleaded guilty to cruelty to companion animals, which is a fifth-degree felony. She was seen stomping on a cat’s head and then devouring the animal in front of several people at a housing complex in Stark County in August.
Ferrell received the maximum sentence.
Canton is about 175 miles northwest of Springfield, Ohio, where unfounded claims that Haitian immigrants were eating the residents’ cats and dogs became viral repeated during the 2024 presidential election cycle.
Ferrell’s case spread to an international audience after then-Republican candidate Trump repeated the claims in a presidential debate and on the campaign trail, and his vice presidential running mate JD Vance promoted it on X (formerly Twitter).
A video shared on YouTube was described as showing a Haitian woman being confronted by Springfield cops about eating a cat, but it was actually bodycam footage of the scene involving Ferrell in Canton.
Ferrell entered her plea after a report from the Psycho-Diagnostic Clinic of Akron stated that she was capable of standing before court and understanding the proceedings.
During her sentencing, the judge said pets ‘bring a lot of love to a lot of people’.
‘They don’t have a voice,’ Forchione said. ‘But their only voice today is me and I’m going to exercise this voice very loudly.’
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