”They scratched my car”... Man in his 20s sentenced to prison for killing 76 foster cats in South Korea

A court has sentenced a man in his 20s to prison for cruelly killing dozens of cats he adopted from a cat adoption website after stray cats had scratched his parked car.
The Changwon District Court in South Korea announced on the 22nd that it had sentenced a suspect in his 20s, A, who was indicted on suspicion of violating the Animal Protection Act, to one year and two months in prison.
From December 2022 to September last year, suspect A engaged in armed assaults in Gimhae, Busan, Seongju, and Daegu in South Gyeongsang Province.
), Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, and other locations around the country, where he was indicted on charges of brutally killing 76 cats on a total of 54 occasions.
It is known that suspect A acquired cats from internet sites or caught them on the street before committing the crimes.
At the time of the crime, suspect A killed one to up to four cats in brutal ways, including strangling them to death and injuring their bodies with a weapon.
According to a police investigation, suspect A admitted that a stray cat had scratched his car while it was parked.
He said he committed the crime out of anger and hatred for cats. The court ruled, "The crimes were planned and repeated, and the cat's life, which had done nothing wrong, was treated like a waste of paper.
However, in light of the indescribably cruel means and methods used, institutional treatment is unavoidable in order to make them realize the importance of life."
However, the court explained the reason for the sentence, saying, "The sentence was decided after taking into consideration that this was a first offense, that the defendant showed remorse, and that there appears to be room for rehabilitation."