A South Carolina teen has been sentenced on an animal cruelty charge after shocking online videos showed him violently throwing cats up to 30 feet in the air.
Deonta Weaver, 18, was sentenced to 50 hours of community service Monday after the appalling videos surfaced on social media sites in September, WCSC reported.
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Deonta Weaver, 18, of Summerville, S.C.was sentenced to 50 hours of community service Monday after video posted on social media sites in September showed him luring cats and then throwing them.
“Round two: Deonta versus cat,” he’s heard saying in one video while approaching a friendly feline in a Mount Pleasant neighborhood on Sept. 7.
Once the cat is at his side he grabs it and with one powerful swoop sends it flying in the air.
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In one of twos videos Weaver is seen grabbing the cat, seen here circled, and then violently throwing it in the air. A black and white kitten was thrown over telephone poles, according to police.
One of the two cats flew about 30 feet in the air, according to police.
“In the first video, he throws a kitten up over telephone pole wires,” Charleston Animal Society Cruelty Investigator Aldwin Roman told WCSC. “Both videos are difficult to watch because the treatment towards the kitten and the cat was cruel and clearly illegal.”
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Weaver, seen after his arrest, apologized in court for his behavior which he called ‘stupid.’
After Weaver posted the videos on his Instagram and Vine accounts, it was flagged to police by an anonymous source.
While in court Monday Weaver apologized to Roman and called his actions “stupid,” WCSC reported.
“I’m glad he owned up to it,” Roman told the station, “But the act was still done.”
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