An Ohio woman received two and a half years in prison after being indicted for killing and eating a cat.
Allexis Ferrell pleaded guilty on Monday to cruelty to companion animals.
She received one year for this felony crime and another 18 months for violating her probation.
According to Fox 8, authorities accused Ferrell (pictured above) of stomping on the cat’s neck and then eating it at a nearby housing complex.
During sentencing, the judge criticized the 27-year-old for her actions.
“I can’t express the disappointment, shock, disgust that this crime has brought to me,” Stark County Common Pleas Judge Frank Forchione said in court, according to Newsweek. “I don’t know what could prompt anyone to want to eat a cat.
“You’ve embarrassed this county. You’ve embarrassed this nation. More importantly, you’ve embarrassed yourself,” he added.
Newsweek also reported that the judge said Ferrell could serve the last six months in a “lower-security rehabilitation facility” if she behaves well in prison.
Ferrell is an American citizen who lives in Canton, Ohio. Canton is almost three hours from Springfield, Ohio, where allegations of Haitians eating cats and dogs surfaced online this summer.
During Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’ presidential debate, the president-elect discussed what was allegedly happening in the small town in Ohio.
“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats,” Trump said. “They’re eating the pets of the people that live there.”
Over the last three years, Springfield has taken in between 12,000 to 20,000 Haitians. Springfield, which has an estimated population of 58,082, has seen its shoplifting and vehicle thefts going up as more Haitians came into the small town, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
After Trump beat Harris to become the 47th president, many Haitians started to leave Springfield in fear of being deported.
Since 2021, almost 500,000 Haitians have entered America illegally. Haitians have overwhelmed other small towns besides Springfield. For example, Charleroi, Pennsylvania, saw a 2,000 percent increase in its “immigrant population” since 2022, many of whom came from Haiti.
On June 28, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas awarded Haitians Temporary Protected Status (TPS). According to the American Immigration Council, TPS “is a temporary immigration status provided to nationals of specifically designated countries that are confronting an ongoing armed conflict, environmental disaster, or extraordinary and temporary conditions.”
The Haitians’ TPS status is good through August 2025. In October, Trump said he would end Haiti’s TPS if he became president.
In 2024, Mayorkas has given the TPS to people from Lebanon, Somalia, Yemen, and Ethiopia.
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Zachery Schmidt is the digital editor of The Star News Network. Email tips to Zachery at [email protected]. Follow Zachery on Twitter @zacheryschmidt2.
