Man Faces Two Years in Prison for Killing His Girlfriend’s Cat

Man Faces Two Years in Prison
for Killing His Girlfriend’s Cat

May 6, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Joe Scott, Director of Communications
Sandi Gibbons, Public Information Officer
Jane Robison, News Secretary
(213) 974-3525

LOS ANGELES – A man faces a possible state prison term after pleading no contest to killing her girlfriend’s cat following an argument, the District Attorney’s Office announced today.

On May 2, Scott Allen Atkinson, 45, was convicted of one count of making criminal threats and one count of intentional cruelty to an animal. Two other counts were dismissed as part of a plea agreement. Atkinson is due back for sentencing July 31 at Los Angeles Superior Court, Department 127.

The defendant killed “Tweety,” a black-and-white cat, in October 2007 after he and his girlfriend argued outside their apartment, according to police reports. After the verbal exchange, the defendant allegedly went back inside the apartment and came back out sometime later, telling the girlfriend, “follow the blood trail to find Tweety.”

While Atkinson contended that he found the cat dead and put its body in a dumpster behind the apartment building, police found blood on the walls of the apartment and in the bathtub. The cat’s body was never recovered.

Deputy District Attorney Stefana Antonescu said Atkinson faces two years in state prison.

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