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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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Charming, to the last.
*sigh* A little psycho in training, this one is.
Sad thing is she'll be more of a monster after a year served.
no brains and no remorse!
This girl deserves death, hopefully a cruel slowwww death.
She should be fucking shot.
BAKE HER.
They should put her in an oven. Sick bitch.
"She should have gotten a longer sentence."
+1
LET ME GET MY HANDS ON THIS PIECE OF SHIT & BURN HER IN A VAT OF OIL, OH WAIT FIRST I WILL SKIN THE BITCH!!!!!!!!
Holy geez...
1 year in jail. That's it?!?! She can't own a pet for 3 years. She shouldn't be allowed to own a pet ever!!!! Do they really think she's going to change in 3 years. Put her in the oven!!!! An eye for an eye!!! her friend too! I want to be the one who doesn't let them out.
Next it'll be a person, mark my words. Send the juvenile psychopath to jail, what's going to happen?
i hope that kitty comes back as a ghost and gives that devil cheyenne cherry a case of flesh-eating ninja fleas.
Sociopath in the making. I'm afraid of what she'll be doing in the years to come. Probably torturing a human before she turns 20
In the making? I think baking a kitten in the oven without showing remorse makes her a full fledged sociopath.
you're absolutely right of course.
I was thinking "serial killer in the making", but wrote "sociopath", which she certainly already is.
This is her future:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/15/tyler-hayes-weinman-charg_n_215653.html
She'll become a scrawny white boy?
She has no chance of ever being a productive member of society. After a year in jail she will be more hardened and cruel. What should the solution be?
I like the ancient idea of banishment. Put her on a raft and tell her that she's welcome to live in any country that will take her -- but she can't stay here.
Oh, I love a good banishing!
Lock her in a hotel room for seventeen years, make her eat nothing but dumplings. Raise her biological son to love cats, let them get into an adventure wherein they fall in love, then KILL THIS BITCH.
This girl's a psychopath. She'll be graduating up to humans next.
We should bring back public executions for this shit!
That makes me want to cry.
Settle down, she'll be dead by 23 anyway.
Alas, she'll be knocked up soon enough. Imagine how she'll treat her kids.
Wooooow. People were pretty vitriolic in the Petcka cat killer comments (the guy who beat the cat to death with his bare hands) but I don't recall people being so bloodthirsty when it came to him. This is horrible beyond words, but I think everyone's reaction in the comments is even worse. Too bad articles about human deaths don't garner this kind of response...
You're absolutely right.
I'm thinking it is more horrific to be slowly baked to death than to be beaten to death.
Why what about that time when that kitten killed that guy? Huh? Where was your outrage then, gothamist commenters!
Yep, can't have a pet, guess I'll have a baby.
Stories like this mad me so angry and sad, you know why? She wins.
She will be put in jail, paid by our taxes. When she comes out, she may go back to public school, paid by our taxes. She will drop out of school have continue to pump out baby after baby for the next 10 years while on welfare, paid by our taxes.
People here want her to bake, I say no. I want her to live a ghetto trash life. I want her to pump out those kids, I want her to live the rest of her life dependent on the charity of others. I want her to never feel what it is like to have financial stability. I want to see her picking up trash on the side of the highway when she is a 35 year old grandmother.
Let her live. Let her live miserable life. She will be judged.
I know the reality is that she will pump out the kids, but I really don't want someone like that breeding.
You know what, you are right, but idiots like that don't know when to keep thier legs closed.
Trash, she is nothing but trash.
Chances are her life would have been like that with or without this cat incident.
Nice thought, but unfortunately, she'll go through life with the same superior attitude, believing she's always the cleverest one in the room and churning out offspring by various vicious thugs. She'll neglect them, burn them, torture them, be in and out of family court... and these abused kids will grow up to hurt and kill other innocent humans. The streets are already full of pumped-out, ignored, abused gun-toting kids. Who knows, one of this POS's offspring may kill you or me or someone we love. She will certainly never suffer any remorse or self-doubt -- "self-esteem" classes and the victim culture will see to that.
Take off your rose-colored glasses. People like this are impervious to punishment or justice.
I was just reading about some other charges she's had in her past including holding a man up at gun point just to take his iPod. So maybe we'll be lucky and she'll do the wrong thing to the wrong person and end up in jail so long she won't have a chance to breed. Or less of a chance. I try to believe in Karma. But then I think: what did the kitten do to diserve this kind of karma.
You're right Tpooh2. Trash.
Karma doesn't exist. If it did, she wouldn't be alive and the guy who saved his son from that whackjob driver a few days ago wouldn't be dead.
Karma does exist. I'm going through hell right now. And please Felix give that bitch a brick in the face.
I want her to live the rest of her life dependent on the charity of others. I want her to never feel what it is like to never have financial stability.
Sadly, there are so many people who have never done anything as horrible as burning a kitten alive already experiencing this.
She deserves hard time + sterilization w/o painkillers. It's the responsible thing to do.
I wish I hadn't read this in the paper today. I just want those 5 minutes back.
No mention of her parents- while I'm not surprised, I'd like to know what the deal is.
Agreed.
Also there were two people involved, this girl and a 14 year old cohort.
Nightstick meets rectum. Enjoy prison, stupid.
They should spay this crazy animal
"This is horrible beyond words, but I think everyone's reaction in the comments is even worse."
yeah you're so right. typing some vitriol is definitely worse than baking a kitten alive. way to show us all how truly wrong we are and what a fucking harbinger of justice you are. way to go.
Fugly ghetto trash is a waste of skin. Her whole life is shit and that kitten was more worhy than that fugly whore will ever be
I can't believe that I actually agree with you.
nothing unites like a common enemy.
I feel pretty dirty about it myself
Horrible thing...
But, isint Fugly a hybrid of fat and ugly. She doesent seem fat.
No, it's shorthand for fucking ugly
As much as I hate what this girl did and think she should have probably received more time for I..I kind of hate all of you more because you really didn't make more of a stink when that dude beat that chick's cat to death.
I don't know why this bothers me, but it does.
Oh that's right..
Er...why do people keep saying that? I seem to recall page upon page of outraged comments...
I was outraged by that, but I was not on Gothamist at the time or I would've gone off on that guy. He's scum too. He's older and SHOULD know better than the 17 year old we're talking about now. I'd like to choke that guy. Really.
How's that.
the old race baiting whore routine, ay? that's fun for a while. keep up the good work and maybe you can serve fat al sharpton his coffee one day.
Why don't y'all just start using the N work, you all know you want to.
C'mon, don't be shy.
Wait, how is it racist to be appalled by animal cruelty? Does the fact that she's black make the act of baking a live kitten less horrific? I'm really not getting your point here
OK. NINNY!
You're right. That black girl is a naughty neanderthal nazi nincompoop.
As 14 and 17, teenagers are often dumb.
At 43, Sharon Tuerlings should have better things to do with her time than harassing teenage criminals.
theendofirony: No.
Doing graffiti is dumb. Shoplifting is dumb. Binge drinking is dumb. Going home with strange men you meet after sneaking in to a club underage is dumb.
Slowly roasting a defenseless baby animal to death out of spite and malice and with a complete lack of empathy for its sufferings isn't "dumb." It's barbaric, and absolutely worthy of a little harassment.
Sorry, What_a_dick-- I thought I was replying to a comment from theendofirony.
Makes me wonder if when she has served her time and released she will might get offed by a cat lover seeking revenge Paul Lazzaro style...
Truth is stranger than fiction
i think the state and federal penal system should be more creative with it's methods of punishment. example of what i would do in this case:
two teens killed a cat, so:
1. break their arms and legs.
2. place them in "re-training facility."
3. place them in separate rooms with no windows, chairs, tables nor vogue magazine subscriptions.
4. place 38 cats of various ages, sizes, and breeds (all spayed and neutered) in each room.
5. place plenty of litter boxes in each room. also place bowls of water and of fish-based cat foods.
6. leave teens in respective rooms with respective cats for one year. okay maybe switch the cats around sometimes just to make things more interesting.
theoretically these hooligans would grow to either fear cats, or love them dearly. like little meow-meow-kitteh-kittehs and other related shenanigans.
i realize this is essentially a form of torture and "morally questionable" but you can't deny the likelihood these teens would truly feel sorry for their actions. plus, it keeps stray cats off the streets and properly nourished and cared for. win-win-win (the last "win" is because i have a code on the bottom of my pepsi bottle cap so that probably means i'm a winner, right?)
Jen, judging from your posts, I know that you are an animal lover. How could you even summon the will to write this post? Anybody who is not horrified should realize that this is a defenseless living being with a consciousness that has been brutally murdered. It is akin to committing the same atrocity to an infant. Dear God (if there is one), why oh why would anyone act so cruelly?
Because she feels that the world wouldn't give her all the things she deserves, and if she can't have the good life, why should some other creature?
I have wondered that as well. This kind of thing haunts me greatly. I have no idea how Jen does it. She loves cats about as much as I do and somehow she manages to cover, read, digest this crap? More power to her. I tend to try and ignore reading things like this because I simply can't shake them from memory.
Jen, I have no idea how you do it. I guess you just kiss and hug your cats a bit longer every night.
I am an animal lover—and I'm also horrified with overall acts of violence. This is a horrifying story; I guess by mentioning it, I hope people take the time to cherish the living things in their lives.
Let felixthecat2 have her.
Win!
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.
It is what it is. She didn't broil it or stir-fry it or saute it -- she baked it. Crispy, well-done.
By writing "burned the kitten" you're implying that it's still alive, just burned. It's not so we call it baking.
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.
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.
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.
what a dick
"It's dead, bitch!"
Hopefully, she'll be yelling this into a mirror soon... right before she steps off the stool and hangs herself.
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.
hmmmm... that gives me a good idea. Maybe they should make her eat the kitten.
Pathetic strawman argument #74.
Seriously, it's a cat.... chill out.
No.
Who are you to decide what life form is greater than another? Do you lack any ounce of compassion? WTF is wrong with you?
She should get the death penalty. She's going to cause nothing but trouble for the rest of her life.
She'll bake in hell soon enough.
RIP Tiger Lily kitty.
there's a lot of animal lovers in jails too.
hope she meets every one of them
up close and personally.
It's not her first brush with the law either.