CNY man charged with torturing kitten, making video

November 03, 2009 9:48 AM
Associated Press
SYRACUSE -- Police are accusing a 22-year-old Syracuse man of hanging a four-month-old kitten and making a video of the animal struggling.

Joanne Cichy told police she couldn't find her kitten when she returned home Halloween night after going trick-or-treating with her children. The next day she found a video on her digital camera showing the kitten hanging from the apartment door with a belt around its neck.

Police said the video showed the kitten struggling before going motionless and Cichy's live-in boyfriend, Rascell Williams, stepping in and out of the video.