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FROM:
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Judge makes ruling to show suspect what it was like for the kittens
she abandoned

Michelle Murray will now have the opportunity to experience what the
dozens of kittens felt the night she abandoned them at two Lake
Metroparks in September.
Painesville Municipal Court Judge Michael A. Cicconetti on Thursday
sentenced Murray, 25, of Painesville Township, to jail time.
But he added a stipulation to ensure that Murray "suffer the same
consequences as those kittens."
"You can listen to the coyotes, hear the raccoons in the dark of
night," said Cicconetti, who grew increasingly annoyed at Murray's
apology attempts in court.
On the night before Thanksgiving, when Murray reports to the Lake
County Jail in Painesville, she will be forced to spend a night alone
in a remote area of a Lake County Metropark, according to Cicconetti
sentence.
Being allowed only water, she will not be provided with food, beverage
or shelter. Murray must remain in that location until "the light of
dawn on Nov. 24," according to the sentence.
Ranger Chief Mike Burko said he has not yet chosen the Metropark, but
will provide her with a walkie-talkie in case of emergency.
Cicconetti, known for his unusual sentences, gave Murray the maximum
sentence of 90 days in jail.
But the judge suspended 60 days and allowed 15 days to be served under
house arrest.
After returning from the wild on Thanksgiving, she will serve 14 days
in the Lake County Jail.
The suspended jail time hinges on two conditions:
n Murray may not own or care for any animals in the next three years.
n She must pay $3,200 to the Lake County Humane Society and $500 to
the Metropark rangers for costs they incurred due to her actions.
"I'm sorry. I truly am sorry. I never meant for any of this to
happen," Murray told the judge before the sentence.
She said she tried to contact the Lake County Humane Society, but
eventually panicked after three cages of cats were dropped off at her
home.
"It doesn't make any difference," the judge
said.
"People panic and commit crimes, they use drugs, they commit domestic
violence. But this wasn't one incident. You did it again the next
day."
Murray admitted to using another alias on a Web site to try to adopt
out another stray cat since she pleaded guilty to abandoning domestic
animals on Oct. 13.
She said she used the fake name because nobody would take a cat from
her if she used her own name. That cat was eventually adopted by the
Humane Society, but was so ill, it was euthanized the day it came in.
Candace Hertzel, executive director of the Lake County Humane Society,
said 15 of the kittens that were rescued had been adopted; 12 still
remain without homes.
"We're very pleasantly surprised by the sentence. It's a small piece
of justice suffered for some of these already deceased kittens,"
Hertzel said outside the courtroom following the sentence.
Prosecutor Russ Meraglio said he was pleased as well. He had
recommended jail time for the second-degree misdemeanor.
Sharon Moten, who gave a mother cat and four kittens to Murray 10 days
prior to her abandoning the animals, still felt the guilt of not
knowing the fate of all of her cats.
"I told her to call me if she couldn't handle them," Moten said.
She hoped the sentence would prompt donations to the Humane Society.
"It's one of the only ways I can feel better about what happened," she
said.

©The News-Herald 2005

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Another article

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FROM:
http://www.cleveland.com/lake/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/lake/113231020533860.x
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Woman must spend night in the woods for abandoning cats
Judge imposes sentence for leaving 40 kittens in parks
Friday, November 18, 2005
Michael Scott
Plain Dealer Reporter
Painesville- Michelle Murray will shiver through a winter night in the
woods with no food, lights or shelter as part of a court-imposed
sentence for abandoning 40 kittens in two parks.

Municipal Judge Michael Cicconetti said Lake Metroparks rangers will
take the 26-year-old Painesville Township woman into the forest at
dusk Wednesday and pick her up at dawn on Thanksgiving Day.

Rangers also will monitor Murray to make sure she is safe and does not
freeze. The National Weather Service forecast for next Wednesday night
is for a chance of snow with a low of 23 degrees.

   
"At least she gets the choice to bundle up for the night," Cicconetti
said in a Thursday interview. "The animals she left never had that
choice."

Murray pleaded guilty last month to a misdemeanor charge of abandoning
animals after identification collars on the kittens led investigators
back to her. The kittens, some as young as 4 weeks, were found by
hikers in mid-September in Mason's Landing in Leroy Township and
Indian Point Park in Perry Township.

Nine later died or were euthanized because they couldn't be saved.

Cicconetti, who has a reputation for imposing unorthodox punishments,
offered Murray a choice: Three months behind bars or one night in the
woods followed by 14 days in jail, 15 days of house arrest and three
years of probation.

In addition to the jail time, Murray must pay $3,200 restitution to
the Lake County Humane Society and $500 to the Metroparks. The judge
also ruled that she can no longer own pets.

In a Thursday interview, Murray said a stranger left the kittens on
her doorstep and the local animal shelter refused to help her. So she
said she left the kittens in parks "to force the humane society to do
something."

The mother of three children and two stepchildren agreed to the night
in the woods only because she could not afford to spend 90 days in
jail.

"But it's inhumane for the judge to send me out in the cold with
nothing but the clothes on my back," she said.

Candace Hertzel, executive director of the humane society, denied that
her agency refused to help Murray. Hertzel also said Cicconetti's
sentence delivers a powerful message.

"At least in Painesville, if you hurt animals, you will pay the
price," she said.

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