Two cats suffered so cruelly before dying, prosecutors say, that they decided to charge a Palm Beach County teacher with two felonies Monday.
Police initially accused Allison Dinsmore, 26, of misdemeanor animal cruelty this month when her two cats' wasted corpses were found in her Boca Raton apartment.
Investigators said the Congress Middle School teacher's cats clawed up the apartment in a frantic search for food as they starved for up to a month before they died. The corpses then rotted in the filthy apartment about a month before an apartment manager found them.
Prosecutors upped the charges to two counts of felony cruelty to animals, saying her actions caused "excessive or repeated infliction of unnecessary pain or suffering." The new charges each carry a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison.
Dinsmore told police in February that she had been working long hours at her school and spent a lot of time at her boyfriend's house. Police said she also went on a family camping trip while the cats starved.
She said she couldn't remember the last time she had been home, but thought she had left food and water for her cats.
The two cats were found dead Feb. 23 by a manager at Boca Sol apartments. Police said Dinsmore hadn't paid rent, and a manger went to her home to talk to her and check out the apartment. The manager found the two dead cats, signs of a frenzied search for food and water, and feces and urine everywhere, according to police.
The smell was so bad, an officer had to cover his mouth with a rag when he first went inside, the report said.
A necropsy determined the cats suffered neglect for weeks or months before dying a slow, painful death from starvation and dehydration.
I've always supported public school systems, but the more I hear about government's increasing influence and the brainwashing of our children, poor examples of leadership and personal responsibility like this girl guiding the lives of youth, and an increasingly alarming tilt toward government dependence and intellectual mediocrity, the more I am terrified to send my child to a school with people like this idiot leading and shaping them. I know that sheltering your child from the woes of world isn't the answer, but very few places and very few people have more of an influence in your child's life than a teacher. If this exemplary young woman is representative of government schools and its leadership, then frankly, I don't trust any government school or teacher shaping the mind of my child. In this particular instance, someone that can treat a cat, one of the few pets that if released can actually provide and hunt for itself, is completely inhumane and cruel. There is no chance that this was an accident. The smile on this girl's face should get her 10 years in jail, minimum. Stories like this make me lose faith in humanity.
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