Psycho

From today’s Philadelphia Inquirer:

Daniel Culligan offered apologies at his sentencing in Bucks County Court yesterday but no explanation as to why he doused his cat with lighter fluid, set it on fire, and threw it from the deck of his Bristol Township apartment in December.

Judge David W. Heckler gave him six to 23 months in Bucks County prison to think about it.

“Your conduct went beyond a mistake, it went beyond misjudgment,” Heckler said. “You displayed a callous disregard for the enormous pain you caused another living creature.”

Culligan, 28, pleaded guilty in June to arson and cruelty to animals for torching the 9-month-old tabby named Chica on Dec. 14. He told police he was frustrated with the cat he had gotten for his son days before because it repeatedly defecated on the floor.