A man in his 20s was sentenced to 16 months in prison by the Montreal Municipal Court on Wednesday for killing a cat and a dog.
Marc-Antoine Côté, 24, pleaded guilty to two counts of intentionally causing the deaths of the two animals at the end of last year. He had been held in protective custody for 8 months.
Our Bureau of Investigation last November revealed the story of the 9-month-old cat that killed Marc-Antoine Côté in March 2022 by throwing him from the second floor of his building.
The animal was found in the snow on the defendant’s property. It was a witness who alerted the authorities. The man allegedly punched, kicked and threw the cat against a concrete wall throughout the evening.
“He picked up the cat and threw it off the second floor so hard it landed on a car in the street. He heard the knock. He looked for her and tried to revive her. He put the cat in the freezer. We don’t know if he was dead at the time,” Chamie Angie Cadorette, of the Montreal SPCA’s investigative branch, told the JE team.
dog in a garbage bag
In addition to the cat, a dog was found in a trash can in September 2022. The animal’s autopsy revealed that it had suffered multiple abuses, including broken ribs. However, according to the judge, it was impossible to determine the exact cause of the animal’s death.
“The defendant will testify that he snapped, it’s obviously his word and not mine, lost control and then put the bitch in a garbage bag when she was probably alive for making noises with her mouth.” , he said, without any form of empathy,” Justice Caumartin said.
It wasn’t his first abuse as he had killed another animal in the past.
In addition to a lifelong ban on keeping animals, there is also a three-year probation period with several conditions.
“The Court considers that in seeking an individualized punishment, consistent with penalties imposed in similar matters, appropriate to the seriousness of the offense and the substantial degree of responsibility of the accused, the specific deterrent criteria of rejection, awareness and of protecting society must prevail in any case,” said Judge Julie Caumartin.
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