Taylor (defendant)
Convicted on two counts of aggravated cruelty to animals after placing three 8-week-old kittens in a knotted pillowcase during a snowstorm — two kittens died.
The Appellate Division, Fourth Department reversed a lower court's reduction of charges and upheld two counts of aggravated cruelty (People v. Taylor, 2026). Two kittens died from hypothermia and possible asphyxiation.
Two counts of aggravated cruelty to animals (upheld on appeal).
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