Target: Brian D. Seaman, District Attorney of Niagara County, NY
Goal: Charge woman allegedly involved in caging and killing of stray cat with animal cruelty.
Another day, and another alleged animal killer gets a slap on the wrist from a lax justice system. New Yorker Timothy VanBuren reportedly admitted that he shot and killed a stray cat whom he had trapped in a cage. VanBuren claims he shot the cat in the head under orders from his landlord. Allegedly, the landlord wanted stray cats removed from her property and initially hired a local animal welfare agency to secure the cats in cages, spay and neuter them, and then release them. The agency apparently later discovered that one of the cages left on the premises had been used by the landlord, Judy Wagner, to trap a cat–and that Wagner confessed to telling her tenant to then kill the animal.
VanBuren was charged with aggravated animal cruelty. Upon appearing in court, however, he was given an adjournment contemplating dismissal. This action means that as long as he does not engage in any known criminal activity for the next few months, the charges will be dismissed with no penalty. As if this non-punishment was not injustice enough, the landlord who allegedly had knowledge of and contributed directly to this killing faced no charges at all.
Sign the petition below to demand these local legal professionals start taking animal cruelty cases seriously.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Mr. Seaman,
The animal cruelty allegations brought to your attention through Cat-by-Cat were deeply disturbing. Two people allegedly confessed to a plot to entrap, shoot, and ultimately kill a stray cat for no other reason than that the cat existed. While Timothy VanBuren was charged with aggravated animal cruelty, he ultimately received what amounted to a dismissal of the charges.
This lacking penalty, combined with the reported treatment of animal rescue employees who attempted to attend the proceedings, signals an extremely troubling legal approach to animal cruelty cases in Royalton and well beyond. You can at least partially rectify this seeming injustice, however. Charge the woman who allegedly instigated this deadly incident, Judy Wagner, with aggravated animal cruelty as well. Moreover, vigilantly pursue a punishment that fits the reported crime.
The legal system claimed they wanted to send a message in this case with the initial cruelty charge. Send the lasting message that any deliberate act of cruelty against another living being will never be condoned nor ignored.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: Jhency Xang
These vile,mentally deranged scumbags, must have the death penalty implemented.A slow and agonising extermination is essential for these evil cretins!
These evil,pieces of no good scum must be given exactly what they had teh audacity to even think to do to these innocent,sweet animals-they are NO GOOD TRASH and need to be thrown into the depths of the earth-such disgusting,conscienceless,worthless monsters are straight from hell.
This is despicable and cannot be tolerated.
If judges let these murderers out, they shouldn’t be surprised when they’re arrested again for killing a human being. It starts here, and judges know it.
This system keeps failing these defenseless animals! What is wrong w/these judges? As long as they continue walking away animal
Cruelty will never end 🙁 something has to be done , enough Is enough! We need bounty hunters for animal abusers !!
Eye for an eye! Do lock up this future murderer – better now before he kills people!
So the POS landlord tells him to do it and he does? WHAT AN ASSHOLE!!! I hope they both ROT IN HELL .. I want them to spend the rest of their miserable lives in jail first before that happens
You’re right. This is terrible and there is absolutely no excuse for this heinous inhumanity whatsoever. If we don’t speak up for the innocents then who will ???
DAs are so lazy, they aren’t worth a sh*t, they rarely ever do their jobs to the best of their ability, they always take the easy way out and an innocent animal’s life means nothing to them. DAs are garbage in suits. RIP sweet furbaby, I’m sorry your last moments were at the hands of subhuman slime….
Death freaking penalty 4 these Sadistic & vile POSs!!!!!
WHEN will we stand up and deal with these MUTANTS?????? WE KNOW that after they get a slap on the wrist (if that!!!), they just continue to inflict suffering on other innocent beings! . . . and those of us who let them get away with it are complicit in the future suffering they most certainly will be inflicting.
WHY DO WE NOT STOP THE MUTANTS WHEN THEY ARE DISCOVERED?? WE KNOW THEY WILL CONTINUE TO TORTURE INNOCENT BEINGS AS LONG AS WE LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT!!!
Jasper County Missouri..I am utterly disgusted that the law and animal rights groups cannot step up and protect the cats/kittens in your area/state.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
YOU WILL PAY ….YOUR TIME WILL COME! DO YOU THINK YOU ARE GOING TO GET AWAY WITH THIS KIND OF NEGLIGENCE ..ANIMAL TORTURE AND OUT AN OUT LACK OF HUMANITY!
There is no justifiable reason to be dismissive here. These individuals abused (shot and executed) a defenseless animal. Animal abuse that causes significant harm or death is extreme animal cruelty. I implore you to take that seriously. These people had every other option and this is completely illegal. These people should both spend several months in jail and at the very least should be fined 5k per person.Both should also receive a lifetime ban from owning or any unsupervised interaction with animals. $5000.00 is the right amount, not $200.00 or even $2000.00. A slap on the wrist sends a message our society doesn’t care and they can disregard life and law. It says to people cruelty and killing are acceptable and no big deal. It is a big deal. Animal cruelty is cruelty and it not acceptable.
These evil, sadistic people need to be brought to justice!
What a puppet!! No spine. Why would you kill an innocent animal for a slum lord!! Should have let it go and called the police on the horrible hag!!!
Do the same thing to them. Give them the mercy that they gave. NONE! JUSTICE!
The court system is a joke, when it comes to animal abuse . This creep needs jail time .
It drives me mad to know how many so called “human” walking on this planet. I hope all those craps who harm an animal for no reason, have no peaceful night sleep for the rest of their crappy life. How hard would have been to trap that cat into cage and bring it to the shelter?
When will they ever prosecute these sick people appropriately?? It’s about time they were charged as a felony. Sick disturbed people to do that to an innocent defenseless kitty.
Fucking do your jobs! You act like a bunch of inbred morons just like the bitches here you should be jailing, you make me sick!
Both of those people deserve to be shot in the head & killed