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A fine sentence was imposed on those in their 40s who were not cleanly maintained, such as leaving the dead cat corpses while raising 27 cats in a house of about 10 pyeong (about 33㎡).
On the 20th, Judge Park Yong-geun, who was solely responsible for Criminal 4 of the Seoul Western District Law, announced on the 20th that he had sentenced a fine of 3 million won to Choi Mo, 48, who was charged with bringing an abandoned cat and neglecting it in an unclean environment (violation of the Animal Protection Act, etc.).
Choi, an animal protection worker, brought three abandoned cats to his house in May 2019, but when the cats died of disease, they were left at home for about two weeks.
During this period, nine other cats in Choi's house died one after another.
The prosecution reported that Choi had violated the duty of breeding and management, claiming that he had not properly cleaned up dead bodies and waste while raising more than 20 cats at home.
The court saw that Mr. Choi's actions constituted animal cruelty.
The judge pointed out that "the accused kept the cats' bodies in a bookcase or shelf in the residence, and did not take measures to isolate them from other cats and buried them all at once in a park in Mapo-gu."
"The defendant also stated that it was dirty after not cleaning the dwelling for about a month, and the public officials who were dispatched to the scene also stated that the excrement was old and had seen the floor," said Mr. Choi, who violated the animal protection obligations. I saw that it occurred.
It is reported that the cats in Choi's house were moved to an animal shelter in Gyeonggi-do operated by the Korea Animal Rescue Association.
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