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On April 4, 2023, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced that 29-years-old CHRISTOPHER SANCHEZ, of Howell Township, “is charged with third-degree Animal Cruelty by Unnecessarily or Cruelly Abusing a Living Animal, Resulting in its Death.”


According to a press release by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, on March 31, 2023, the Howell Township Police Department responded to a residence for an unrelated matter and outside the home officers discovered a deceased cat.


Police along with the Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) Humane Law Enforcement Division initiated an investigation from which it emerged that SANCHEZ was the guardian of the dead cat, named Lilith.

The investigation revealed that SANCHEZ had used a sharp instrument to kill Lilith two days earlier.

SANCHEZ was arrested on March 31, 2012, and transported to the Monmouth County Correctional Institution (MCCI).


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- New Jersey, USA -


⚠️WARNING. The article contains details some of you may find distressing⚠️


On March 3, 2023, through a press release, the Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced that 18-years-old BANI J. MEZQUITITLA, of Asbury Park, was charged with “Animal Cruelty by Tormenting, Torturing, or Unnecessarily or Cruelly Abusing a Living Animal, Resulting in its Death, and Animal Cruelty by Using or Causing or Procuring the Use of an Animal or Creature in Any Kind of Sexual Manner, both third-degree crimes.”


According to the press release, an investigation into MEZQUITITLA’s activities was launched on March 2, 2023, after a concerned citizen brought a lifeless cat to Asbury Park Police Department headquarters.


Police along with the Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Humane Law Enforcement Division determined that MEZQUITITLA was the cat’s guardian.


As stated in the release, MEZQUITITLA “is alleged to have first performed sexual acts on the animal, seriously injuring it. He is also alleged to have later restrained and tortured the cat, resulting in its death.”


MEZQUITITLA was located and placed under arrest on March 2, 2023, and transported to the Monmouth County Correctional Institution (MCCI).


According to app, on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, during MEZQUITITLA’s hearing, his defense attorney, Alton Kenney, argued that MEZQUITITLA “should be released from jail because he never harmed a human being.”


At the hearing, Assistant Prosecutor Sevan Biramian recounted the devastating and sickening events of what MEZQUITITLA is alleged to have done to his defenseless cat named Ellie.


As reported by app, Assistant Prosecutor Biramian alleged that MEZQUITITLA “had sexual intercourse with his pet cat over a period of months and also sexually abused her with a pencil; that he tortured her by repeatedly strangling her with a pulley device consisting of the phone charger cord, a door knob and a dresser knob; that he handcuffed the feline's limbs behind her back with miniature handcuffs during the torture; that he cut off her tongue and part of her jaw while she was still alive; and that once she was dead, he threw her out of his apartment window.”


Assistant Prosecutor Biramian said MEZQUITITLA filmed and took pictures of the torture inflicted on Ellie. MEZQUITITLA took selfies in which Ellie can be seen “fighting for her life as she was being strangled.” Assistant Prosecutor Biramian also said that in those selfies, MEZQUITITLA “can be seen smirking” and added: “He raped it multiple times.”

Assistant Prosecutor Biramian went on to say: “He fashioned torture devices to strangle the cat over and over, and then he dissected her while she was alive. He doesn't appear to have a conscience. He did this because Ellie was defenseless.”


For the two counts of animal cruelty that MEZQUITITLA is charged with, “there is no presumption of incarceration while awaiting trial,” reports app, and despite that, Superior Court Judge Henry P. Butehorn ordered MEZQUITITLA held without bail to await trial.

In issuing the order, Judge Butehorn cited the strength of the evidence against MEZQUITITLA. Evidence gathered against MEZQUITITLA includes video, pictures, MEZQUITITLA’ s confession, and a veterinarian's report following a necropsy performed on Ellie. Results showed Ellie’s injuries “were consistent with the defendant having sex with her, sexually abusing her with a pencil, strangling her and dissecting her tongue and jaw while she was still alive,” reports app. Judge Butehorn said: “All of this evidence does indicate a depravity of the mind that goes far beyond animal cruelty.” Assistant Prosecutor Biramian said MEZQUITITLA confessed his abuse to investigators.


According to app, Judge Butehorn further said: “There is strong evidence to indicate that the defendant engaged in an extended course of unprovoked torture and sexual assaults on an innocent, defenseless cat.”


Citing one of the videos in which MEZQUITITLA can be seen handcuffing Ellie’s tiny paws behind her back, Judge Butehorn said: “The defendant explained the handcuffing as pretending to be a police officer and arresting the cat after it ran away.”


MEZQUITITLA's defense attorney argued that the state's bail reform law requires detention of defendants who pose a danger to the community and said: “The community is made out of people. There's nothing they can cite to say my client ever, ever harmed a human being. They're trying to equate this cat to a person.”


To this feeble and pathetic attempt to defend the murder of an innocent and defenseless cat, Assistant Prosecutor Biramian responded: “Animal cruelty, especially this sadistic, is the kind of anti-social behavior that poses the most serious risk and danger to humans. Courts have recognized the link between people who abuse animals and people who abuse humans.”

Assistant Prosecutor Biramian then mentioned one of the videos in which MEZQUITITLA can be seen “dangling” Ellie “from the pulley device while the animal struggled for air and then lowering her and allowing her to catch a breath before again lifting her in the air again. The cat can be [seen] clawing at the air during the torture before she was handcuffed.”


MEZQUITITLA's defense attorney said that rather than jail, his client needs “psychological and psychiatric treatment.” His argument went on to point out that MEZQUITITLA “has no prior record and, because of that, would be eligible for a pretrial intervention program that would afford him the chance to avoid a criminal record, so he would have no motive to flee the jurisdiction”.


According to Assistant Prosecutor Biramian, on March 2, MEZQUITITLA admitted to his roommate that he killed Ellie and threw her out of the apartment window. The roommate went outside and found Ellie’s lifeless body. The roommate is the person who then brought Ellie to the Asbury Park Police Department. Reportedly, before admitting to murdering Ellie, MEZQUITITLA told his roommate that Ellie had run away.


Assistant Prosecutor Biramian said that MEZQUITITLA’s roommate had been feeding and caring for Ellie for months but her kindness was repaid with terror. MEZQUITITLA, in fact, showed his roommate the torture videos and pictures because he “meant to terrorize the roommate.”


As Assistant Prosecutor Biramian was recounting the graphic details of what Ellie endured, he said that MEZQUITITLA admitted he first masturbated in front of her. “Then, he admitted to sticking a pencil inside the cat, then he admitted to using his penis to have intercourse with the cat,” said Assistant Prosecutor Biramian.


Assistant Prosecutor Biramian explained that “He said this started months before Ellie's death, sometime around Christmas,” and further said: “When detectives asked the defendant if he had ever done anything like this before, he laughed and said, ‘No, I’m not a psycho’.”


After hearing these shocking facts, Judge Butehorn rejected Alton Kenney’s request to release his client and ordered MEZQUITITLA held without bail.


Judge Butehorn said there also is evidence that MEZQUITITLA searched the internet to find out what the penalties are for killing a cat.


According to app, MEZQUITITLA’s defense attorney said: “There are people charged with far more serious offenses that are out on the street.”

As I was writing this article, and as happens with most of my articles, I stopped several times to wait until I had no more tears. I cannot fathom how a person can be capable of such sadistic acts. Where does this evil nature come from?


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- Georgia, USA -


~ Update: May 21, 2023


On May 18, 2023, a Superior Court Jury found ERIC TOLBERT (pictured), not guilty on all animal cruelty charges involving the PREVENTABLE and CRUEL deaths of his three dogs!


In January 2023, TOLBERT, a Rockdale County sheriff’s deputy, was indicted on three counts of felony aggravated cruelty to animals and two counts of misdemeanor cruelty to animals.


The three Voiceless Victims, LaLa, LukeCage, and Storm, were American Bulldogs, a breathing-impaired breed and TOLBERT should have known better!


These innocent souls lost their precious lives in June 2022. They died in a shed on TOLBERT’s property when temperatures reached a sweltering 95 degrees.


Four months later, a jury tells TOLBERT: “Well done! Don’t worry about it, they’re just dogs, their lives didn’t matter! Go on with your life!”

That’s not all! The Citizens reports: “Tolbert, who had been placed on administrative leave with pay, will return to full active duty, according to the Sheriff’s Office.”


Ms. Daphna Nachminovitch, Senior Vice President of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), said: “There’s no excuse for leaving any dogs, let alone breathing-impaired ones such as LaLa, Luke Cage, and Storm, to wallow in their own waste while panting out their last agonizing breaths in a stifling shed in 95-degree heat. Hot weather is especially dangerous for American bullies and other flat-faced breeds, since their distorted airways make it difficult for them to breathe—and with summer approaching, PETA urges everyone to keep their dogs indoors, never chain or confine them outdoors or in sheds, and speak up if they know of any animals in danger of enduring the kind of horrific deaths that Tolbert’s dogs experienced.”


A lot of people out there have made it their mission to fight for animal rights.

On a daily basis, rescue organizations take in countless animal victims of abuse.

I feel that for every step we take forward, then something appalling and despicable like this verdict happens, that pushes us back to the starting point undoing all efforts made to demand harsh sentences.

Who the hell was in that jury!? How the hell will each and every one of you be able to sleep at night?

Had those dogs been children….





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Rockdale County District Attorney Alisha Johnson announced that on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office Deputy ERIC TOLBERT (pictured), has been indicted by a grand jury for three counts of felony aggravated cruelty to animals and two counts of misdemeanor cruelty to animals, reports PETA.


The charges stem from the PREVENTABLE, CRUEL, and SENSELESS deaths of his American Bulldogs (a breathing-impaired breed), named LaLa, LukeCage, and Storm. The furbabies died in June in a shed on TOLBERT’s property when temperatures reached a sweltering 95 degrees.


The charges also refer to his K-9, a black Labrador Retriever named Aegis, who was found “neglected and confined to a hot, filthy pen filled with mold-covered feces,” and another dog, a Pitbull, kept in squalid, feces-littered pens with dirty water buckets. Aegis was removed by county officials but the other dog was left with TOLBERT and his condition and whereabouts are currently unknown.


FOX Carolina reports that when Rockdale County Sheriff’s Investigator Colleen Jones executed a search warrant at TOLBERT’s residence, he was not there. Jones spoke to TOLBERT on the phone, explained that she was at his property to investigate and asked him where the dogs were. Reportedly, TOLBERT answered, “I didn’t have a way to bury them so I trashed them.” To that, Jones said: “You did what with them?” TOLBERT then answered: “Put them in the trash.”


Officials found “unsanitary conditions and the improper disposal of his personal dogs, which was in violation of Georgia law.”


Although Jones believed she had enough to charge TOLBERT with animal cruelty, County judge Nancy Bills, however, refused to sign a warrant for arrest because Jones’ relation to TOLBERT constitutes a “conflict of interest.”

Judge Bills believed the sheriff’s department should have turned the case over to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Furthermore, in addition to the denial of a warrant for arrest, the district attorney refused to prosecute because of a “lack of evidence.”


At the time, the only discipline TOLBERT faced was a 32-hour suspension and the removal of his K9 handler status.


It’s disgraceful, that TOLBERT was initially spared from facing legal consequences and that thanks to PETA this filthy murderer will now get what’s coming to him!


After charges were finally filed against TOLBERT, PETA said in a news release: “Now, following three months of action by PETA, during which we sent letters, held demonstrations, and encouraged supporters to take action, Rockdale County District Attorney Alisha Johnson has finally charged Tolbert with cruelty to animals.”


LukeCage, LaLa, and Storm depended on TOLBERT “for protection, but he left them to suffer and die” rightfully said PETA.

TOLBERT cruelly, carelessly, and selfishly kept the VOICELESS VICTIMS “crated without adequate ventilation in a squalid outdoor shed, where the walls were stained with urine and moldy feces had piled up beneath the crates. After the first dog died, Tolbert couldn’t even be bothered to keep the other two safe indoors. Instead, he left them in the shed while he went to work the next day, and they died, too.”


In a statement, PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch said: “Nothing can bring these dogs back or make up for their suffering, but these charges send the message that there are consequences for anyone who causes dogs’ agonizing deaths, including those charged with enforcing the law. PETA is calling for Deputy Eric Tolbert to be barred from owning animals for life so that no other dog dies slowly and painfully in his stifling shed as LaLa, LukeCage, and Storm did.”


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