Nov 18, 2009 10:19 am US/Eastern
Middletown Cat Owner Appeals Cruelty Conviction
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) ―
A Middletown man has been convicted of misdemeanor animal cruelty for leaving three cats outside for more than a month last winter.
The only animal known to have survived was eventually adopted by another family.
A defense attorney denied during a hearing Tuesday in Frederick County District Court that Gregory Moser, 30, had willfully neglected the animals. He said Moser had put out 20 pounds of cat food a week.
Moser, of Middletown, immediately appealed his convictions on four counts of animal cruelty to circuit court.
The judge put the convictions on hold pending the appeal. He also stayed his sentence of a suspended 90-day jail term and more than $600 in fines, court costs and restitution to two animal hospitals.
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