Cat Torturer Given Light Sentence

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I am watching and waiting. Rest assured that we know sometimes one must protect the innocent when the law choses to do otherwise. What recourse do we and the cats have when we let the law do its job and it fails us both? This kind of animal abuse is everywhere and NO ONE does anything about it but coddle the abuser once they are caught and slap them with some light sentence. Can you just imagine what the poor cat went through and the hundreds just like that poor cat go through because we as a society do nothing. We wait for the law and they do nothing and then we forget about the cases all together. I, for one have had enough!!! I am really really fed up. I have resources and am going to use them and make a difference. Sorry to vent on your page...Sharon

Extremely light sentence, unbelievable!
What kind of a person could do this? Does he even have a heart? Itis more than immaturity at the age of 20.
I've recently seen a 6 year old crying because his Mom had accidentally stepped on his stuffed teddy bear and the toy squeaked.That was a LIVE little caged kitty for God sake!
It is so sad people like Giovanni Estrada are getting away with this horrendous act.The history tells us that to make his newly drafted army cruel and heartless, Hitler made them torture and beat to death many defenseless animals for "training" purposes.

The acts like these are not only sad and disturbing, they are dangerous for the society of humans.

The child abusers suffer in prison, but the animal abusers can brag and they all think it's funny.

All one has to do to see the flaws in U.S. law is to sit in on General Sessions court. We took Archies son once and it was the worst idea we ever had. He was turning into a misguided teenager and all we did was show him drug dealer is the best job in the country. We sat for four hours and watched 4th offense drug dealers who dealed near schools get a $300 fine and probation. In other words, they didn't have to take time out from their "job" except to go to court.

I've been turned down for jury duty because of my beliefs. I'm all for public hanging for those who confess to murder. Forget the jails with the big screen TV and libraries and gyms. Lets hang them up at daybreak, make an example of them and not cost the taxpayer 40 years of upkeep.

The judge should have put him in a crate and sent him over to the UK where we would have seen to it that he never ever tortured an animal again because he'd not be on this earth to do so after a long lingering torture session on himself.
Seriously though, I don't know much about the law apart from staying on the right side of it (except in my imagination as above) but he does seem to have got away lightly.
Elisa do child or animal abusers suffer in prison as they do here by the wrath of other prisoners who hate abusers ? I do hope so !

How about sentencing Estrada to 364 years in jail? Maybe our State Department could work something out with the government of Turkey, and he could spend some of it in a Turkish prison. Miserable, cowardly, pathetic POS.

I have two hats on when I think about these horrible people.

Personally, if I saw him do it etc. I would probably thrash him to within an inch of his life, if my old body held up. I hate these people.

But as a judge, you have to be more "balanced" and reflect society.

This judge tried to do that: produce a balanced sentence.

I am like you, Elisa. I want to give him the max. but if I did he would probably appeal and get it reduced.

The underlying problem is not the judge but society. It bestows neither enough rights nor enough respect to our companion animals (or any animal for that matter) because we are king on this planet and they are "only animals".