Summary
Allexis Ferrell, a 27-year-old Ohio woman, was sentenced to one year in prison for killing and attempting to eat a cat.
The case gained global attention after it was falsely linked to Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, by Donald Trump and JD Vance, despite Ferrell being a U.S. citizen from Canton, 170 miles away.
The baseless claims were widely debunked by authorities.
Ferrell, a mother of three, was found competent to stand trial and requested treatment for substance abuse.
Judge Frank Forchione called the crime “repulsive” and sentenced her to the maximum term.
And here I thought orange just pulled this out of his ass to malign immigrants.
He did. The fact that someone (who isn’t an immigrant) did it in a different place than they said does not make them correct.
The original story was a woman who lost her cat (later found in their basement IIRC) and blamed migrants for it baselessly. It has been totally refuted. You can’t just shift a story to a totally different thing and claim it was correct later.
He did. One mentally ill US citizen, not in Springfield, not an immigrant, ate a cat. Trump and Vance then lied and said immigrants were doing it in Springfield, implying it was a regular occurrence. They were lying, deliberately and maliciously.