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

2009_07_ccherry.jpg 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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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Gnomie

    By writing "burned the kitten" you're implying that it's still alive, just burned. It's not so we call it baking.

  • JenChungsBaby

    It is what it is. She didn't broil it or stir-fry it or saute it -- she baked it. Crispy, well-done.

  • NannyState

    Let felixthecat2 have her.

  • The Edge

    Win!

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Spirit of 76

    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?

  • firewire

    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?)

  • Fritzdecat

    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



  • 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.

  • snappaloosa

    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.

  • snappaloosa

    Sorry, What_a_dick-- I thought I was replying to a comment from theendofirony.

  • Ph

    Why don't y'all just start using the N work, you all know you want to.



    C'mon, don't be shy.

  • JenChungsBaby

    You're right. That black girl is a naughty neanderthal nazi nincompoop.

  • Guest

    OK. NINNY!

  • Gnomie

    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

  • Ph

    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..

  • hotstepper

    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.

  • echo

    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.

  • nicemarmot

    Er...why do people keep saying that? I seem to recall page upon page of outraged comments...

  • felixthecat2

    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

  • rdsizzle

    Horrible thing...

    But, isint Fugly a hybrid of fat and ugly. She doesent seem fat.

  • Gnomie

    No, it's shorthand for fucking ugly

  • ides_of_march

    I can't believe that I actually agree with you.

  • Gnomie

    I feel pretty dirty about it myself

  • hotstepper

    nothing unites like a common enemy.

  • hotstepper

    "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.

  • valeriob

    They should spay this crazy animal

  • Splicer

    Nightstick meets rectum. Enjoy prison, stupid.

  • donner

    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.

  • jibbly

    Agreed.



    Also there were two people involved, this girl and a 14 year old cohort.

  • Tpooh2

    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.

  • schizofriendly

    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.





  • echo

    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.

  • Spirit of 76

    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.

  • Dead Himmler

    Karma does exist. I'm going through hell right now. And please Felix give that bitch a brick in the face.

  • ROTFL

    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.

  • longacre

    Chances are her life would have been like that with or without this cat incident.

  • echo

    I know the reality is that she will pump out the kids, but I really don't want someone like that breeding.

  • Tpooh2

    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.

  • Barbj8

    Yep, can't have a pet, guess I'll have a baby.

  • Soggy

    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...

  • matty

    Why what about that time when that kitten killed that guy? Huh? Where was your outrage then, gothamist commenters!

  • just saying

    I'm thinking it is more horrific to be slowly baked to death than to be beaten to death.

  • farleft

    You're absolutely right.

  • ROTFL

    Alas, she'll be knocked up soon enough. Imagine how she'll treat her kids.

  • Mookie Wilson

    Settle down, she'll be dead by 23 anyway.

  • MatthewJC

    That makes me want to cry.

  • yg

    We should bring back public executions for this shit!

  • Dirk

    This girl's a psychopath. She'll be graduating up to humans next.

  • robingee

    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?

  • Thespis

    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.

  • Gnomie

    Oh, I love a good banishing!

  • the3rdbridge

    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.

  • farleft
  • AvenueHebrew

    She'll become a scrawny white boy?

  • jules1000

    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

  • jibbly

    In the making? I think baking a kitten in the oven without showing remorse makes her a full fledged sociopath.

  • jules1000

    you're absolutely right of course.

    I was thinking "serial killer in the making", but wrote "sociopath", which she certainly already is.

  • hotstepper

    i hope that kitty comes back as a ghost and gives that devil cheyenne cherry a case of flesh-eating ninja fleas.

  • nicemarmot

    Next it'll be a person, mark my words. Send the juvenile psychopath to jail, what's going to happen?

  • echo

    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.

  • jibbly

    Holy geez...

  • sexisicilian

    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!!!!!!!!

  • inoyourider

    "She should have gotten a longer sentence."

    +1

  • FJF

    They should put her in an oven. Sick bitch.

  • LongShanks

    BAKE HER.

  • tom traubert

    She should be fucking shot.

  • Amanda Harletsch

    no brains and no remorse!

    This girl deserves death, hopefully a cruel slowwww death.

  • Wza

    Sad thing is she'll be more of a monster after a year served.

  • gothamguy

    *sigh* A little psycho in training, this one is.

  • matty

    Charming, to the last.

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