Florida teen accused of setting caged cat on fire and feeding it to his dogs gets no jail time
19-year-old Roberto Hernandez pleaded guilty to one count of felony animal abuse, a third-degree offense, for the crime and was sentenced to 100 hours of community service.
A Miami teen who was caught on camera killing a caged cat by setting it on fire and then feeding it to his dogs was spared jail time. 19-year-old Roberto Hernandez was sentenced to five years of probation and 100 hours of community service by Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Nushin Sayfie, much to the chagrin of the prosecutors and animals' rights activists alike.
According to CBS Miami, Hernandez was 17-years-old when he was caught on a surveillance camera pouring a flammable liquid on a caged animal, which prosecutors said was a cat, and then setting it on fire at his family's rural property on the 16600 block of SW 174th Avenue.