Ohio

Student Accused Of Killing Cat, Using Organs As Bait:

Reason to Blow Up the World...

LOGAN, Ohio — A prosecutor expressed frustration Thursday at not being able to file tougher charges against a college student accused in a heinous case of animal cruelty.

According to prosecutors, the student killed and mutilated a stranger's house cat, then used the animal's organs as fishing bait, 10TV's Glenn McEntyre reported.

Humane Society agent Saundra Harvey called it the worst case of animal abuse she has ever seen.

"He went to a home, went up on the porch, picked up a cat, took it to his pickup truck, threw it on the ground," Harvey said.  "The cat was meowing; he stomped its head, proceeded to disembowel it, took its liver and went fishing with it."

The accused, Bryan Able, 18, is a law enforcement student at Hocking College, McEntyre reported.

Investigators say after Able finished fishing, he drove to the college campus and put the cat's remains on the hood of another student's car.

Hocking County Prosecutor Laina Fetherolf said the toughest charge she can file against Able is misdemeanor animal cruelty.

"The second offense, were he to do something like this again, would be a felony," Fetherolf said.  "But where does that leave us this time? And why do we have to let it happen again for it to be a more serious charge?"

If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of six months in prison.

You would think that someone who is a law enforcement student would be smart enough to know that he may get into a small bit of trouble over this. Even though this is only a misdemeanor I hope that this is enough to keep him from actually getting a badge and a gun.

One point for killing the cat in such a violent fashion, another point for gutting the cat, one more point for using that cat's organ's as bait, one more point for driving around with the cat's carcass, another point for putting the cat's corpse on someone's car, another point for thinking that would be funny, one more point for the fact you can only be sent to jail for six months, and one last point for thinking that a psychopath like you would make a good cop. That's eight.