Crown Heights Man Gets 6 Years for Torching Cat
A Brooklyn man who doused a tabby with lighter fluid and set it ablaze because he was bored will spend up to six years in prison before facing deportation proceedings, a judge ruled today.
Angelo Monderoy was convicted in March of arson, burglary and aggravated cruelty to animals for the 2009 immolation of stray cat Tommy Two Times.
Monderoy’s lawyer Ricardo Rodriguez implored Supreme Court Justice Michael Gary to treat his client – who was a teen at the time of the crime – as a youthful offender, which would seal the record and spare Monderoy a criminal record.
Gary scoffed at the notion, citing a probation report that “strongly recommended” prison for Mondoeroy, citing the “atrocious nature” of the crime and Monderoy’s “disruptive and assaultive conduct while in custody.”
“It’s mind-boggling to think one who is so intelligent would commit such heinous acts,” said Gary, before lowering the boom on Monderoy, 21. “There were so many steps in the procedure where an intelligent individual could say, ‘Stop, this is inhumane. I can’t go through with this.’
“There is no way the world should not know what Mr. Monderoy did here.”
In March 2009, Monderoy and two of his friends grabbed Tommy Two Times, who lived on the grounds of a Crown Heights apartment complex, broke into an empty apartment and torched the feline.
While Monderoy cooled his heels on Rikers Island awaiting trial on charges of burglary, arson and aggravated cruelty to animals, his girlfriend asked him why he did it.
His response, captured on tape: “I don’t know. We were bored.”
Rodriguez argued that Monderoy was remorseful and deserved a second chance.
But Assistant District Attorney Josh Charlton countered that the crime was “not a whim, not a fleeting decision in a teenage mind.”
Moderoy spoke briefly before Gary sentenced him to 2-to-6 years on the burglary, 1⅓-to-4 years on the arson and the maximum two years on the animal cruelty charge.
“I’d like to say I’m sorry for what happened,” said Monderoy, who has been in custody for 26 months. “What I did was wrong.”
Monderoy, a native of Trinidad, has an immigration warrant lodged against him and faces deportation proceedings when his term is up.
Need to know?!
Why is this article on a jewish website? Why do I need to know this?
Good Riddance
They should have sentenced him to one day in a cell with a bored tiger. Let him serve his time in Trinidad and save the New York taxpayers the expense. The sooner he leaves the country the better.
so..
why are there no pictures of the roasted tabby
Parity?
6 years is excessive!
me
@goodridence, i tottaly agree.
that is sick just b/c ur bored, u cant go torching animals. they have feeling too, and plus that is just inhumane.
The Guy with the Dog
It makes me sick to my stomch, not only what he did to the cat, but that I bust my butt to earn a parnassah and pay my taxes which went to defend this scumbag.
Insane
6 years for a cat (if it was just for the cat) is insanity.
The judge probably owns a cat. This is judicial activism at it’s worst.
he deserves LIFE in prison!!!!!!!
poor kitty!!! :(
CATastrophe
Do cats go Woof when you set them alight?
Just asking.
To #1
Why are you so closed minded that all you can bear to be informed of is the few blocks involving JEWISH people in crown heights?
This site is CROWNHEIGHTS.INFO, I would assume that means…news that concerns crown heights in its entirety!?
It’s really not that difficult.
lesson to learn
Chassidim have drunks, thieves, wife abusers, pedophiles, and animal abusers. We need to hear about this to deter anybody from abusing animals.
To #1, you should know better. You sound ignorant or just plain air head.
close minded people
he torched a cat because he was bored! this man lives in your neighborhood , i think you should be informed of what type of people live here!
to # 4, 7, 11
To all who ask why so much, #4, 7 & 11
there are two things torcher of cat is tzaar baalei chayom which is min Hatorah
From torchering an animal, if not stopped will get to people c”v and I am sure you (thinlking about yourself) will then not ask why so many yrs.
ssheli
give him psychotherapy while he’s in prison. anyone who is big and strong and healthy looking but has NO life to the point that he would do that, needs to get some things straight.
everything in perspective
Pathetic!
Definitely excessive,
and to say it starts with cats and then will get to people, is total nonsense.
Uncle Mendel
He would have been better off killing someone. Than he would have been acquitted or had his sentence commuted.
Was this his first offense, or had he torched other cats?
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Here kitty
He must have had priors. Animal abuse is usually a misdemeanor and so is burglary in NY :((.
18
sicko!! animal cruelty shoes a lot about a person
Here kitty
With the exception of Adolf Hitler YMS who was an animal lover, almost every serial killer and pervert was also an animal abuser.
Serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Arthur Shawcross started out torturing animals. Uday YMS ben Saddam Hussein YMS kept big cats and bears in unsuitable cages so he could mistreat them.
This creep is a sociopath. He should be sent to New Square to start a breakaway minyan so he gets a taste of his own medicine.