Kitten Killer's Sentence Changed

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - A judge has ruled that a Chickasaw man who
was convicted of torturing a kitten will not have to spend 18
months in prison after all.
Mobile County Circuit Judge James Wood changed the sentence for
24-year-old Ralph Allen Fisk, who will now be required to spend the
18 months reporting to Mobile's Community Corrections Center.
The corrections center typically requires its participants to
report daily and undergo a series of intense rehabilitation
programs.
Testimony during Fisk's one-day trial before Wood earlier this
year showed Fisk got angry at his common-law wife's 4-month old
kitten after it scratched him.
Fisk cut all four of the kitten's pads off to the bone, then
burned its belly and genitalia. It was found alive in a closet but
died shortly afterward.

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