Teen, Who Baked Kitten In Oven, Yells "It's Dead, Bitch" At Activists

Yesterday, Cheyenne Cherry pleaded guilty to two charges— attempted burglary and animal cruelty—"in a six-count indictment" related to an incident where she wrecked a friend's apartment as well as baked the friend's kitten in a 500 degree oven. The Daily News explains that the 17-year-old "Cherry was granted a plea deal [from the Bronx DA's office] because her cohort was 'more culpable' for the crimes"—the co-hort, 14, admitted to putting kitten Tiger Lily in the oven in the first place while Cherry said, "I didn't let the cat out." The two teens then ran out of the apartment, so they wouldn't have to hear the cat's cries or attempts to get out.

Cherry will probably spend a year in prison. She is also barred from owning a pet for three years (how that will be enforced is anyone's guess). A number of animal rights activists were gathered outside the Bronx courthouse. The Post reports that one of those people was "Sharon Tuerlings, a Levittown mortgage saleswoman who moonlights as an animal rescuer." Tuerlings "flipped Cherry the double bird when she was exiting the courtroom," and Cherry responded by yelling, "It's dead, bitch!" referring to the kitten. Tuerlings said, "It felt good to look at her ugly face. She should have gotten a longer sentence."

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By Jen Chung in News on July 16, 2009 2:55 PM

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McFister

It's not her first brush with the law either.

sowhtifithppnsitwll

there's a lot of animal lovers in jails too.

hope she meets every one of them

up close and personally.

snickerdoodle

She'll bake in hell soon enough.

RIP Tiger Lily kitty.

whatsd

She should get the death penalty. She's going to cause nothing but trouble for the rest of her life.

Matt Joyce

Seriously, it's a cat.... chill out.

mihow

Who are you to decide what life form is greater than another? Do you lack any ounce of compassion? WTF is wrong with you?

robingee

No.

JenChungsBaby

If anyone cares, tonight I'll be dropping four live lobsters into a pot of boiling water. Then I'm going to rip them apart with a nutcracker. Protest forms to the right.

mihow

Pathetic strawman argument #74.

echo

hmmmm... that gives me a good idea. Maybe they should make her eat the kitten.

Guest

"It's dead, bitch!"

Hopefully, she'll be yelling this into a mirror soon... right before she steps off the stool and hangs herself.

what_a_dick

what a dick

ramsheadtavern

Gothamist - I second Nyctini11's suggestion to have all the comments printed out and that she be made to read them out loud to her fellow cellmates every day for the length of her sentence.

And if she refuses to do it - get the gasoline can and the matches out.

ramsheadtavern

Here's what I hope for this piece of garbage. May she be put in a jail filled to the brim with animal lovers and lead pipes - failing that, some flammable material and matches. She should come out a "changed" woman.

Nyctini11

Dear Gothamist, can you please print out all our comments here and send them to her, if she can read, she'll have plenty of time in the next year to cover this material. Let's start with the comments from when you first reported this story and take it from there. stupid wench.

valeriob

Anyone else feel like the title "Teen, who baked kitten in oven" is intentionally vivid?

Maybe if it read: "Teen, who burned kitten in oven" it wouldn't sound so much like a casserole.