Sentencing in two months on cat strangling

NEWS — Kamloops resident Steven Seidel will be sentenced in two months on convictions of three counts of animal cruelty in a case involving a family pet, Oreo.

B.C. SPCA investigators recommended the charges against Seidel after determining that he strangled the cat last June. The cat’s body was found in a dumpster behind the building where Seidel lived.

“It is so disturbing to think that an innocent animal would have suffered and died under such horrifying and unnecessary circumstances,” said Marcie Moriarty, chief prevention and enforcement officer for the BC SPCA.

“While nothing can undo the suffering that Oreo endured, we are satisfied that justice will be served for this poor animal.”

Seidel faces up to 18 months in jail and/or a $10,000 fine and could receive up to a lifetime ban on owning animals.