A Northern California man avoided prison time after he drunkenly trespassed at a preschool last year and attacked a pet tortoise named Michelangelo.
Michelangelo, the 70-year-old African tortoise and San Jose preschool pet, wanders around at ARCHVET Animal Hospital in San Jose, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021, following surgery the day before after being beaten and stabbed by an assailant. On Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, a judge sentenced the assailant to two years of probation and mandatory mental health and substance abuse treatment, according to The San Jose Mercury News.
The 42-year-old man was also linked to other break-ins at the East San Jose school, and stole thousands of dollars of items in the days before and after the attack on Michelangelo, a decades-old African sulcata, in January 2021. The school’s owner discovered Michelangelo bleeding last year after the attack, impaled in the shell with 6-inch shards from a wooden garden gate post. The man had also shoved a rake handle between the animal's head and leg and broke flood lamps and put the shattered glass on the tortoise's back, The Mercury News reported.
A judge sentenced the man Friday to two years of probation and mandatory mental health and substance abuse treatment. He had pleaded no contest to charges of animal abuse, commercial burglary and vandalism earlier this year, the newspaper reported. The man is now also banned from having any animals for 10 years. His public defender said his client's behavior against the tortoise was the result of excessive intoxication, rather than animal cruelty, the newspaper wrote.
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