een Accused of Setting Caged Cat on Fire Avoids Jail Time- Interviews Available
Amy Jean Davis, Animal Advocate & Founder of LA Animal Save is available to discuss this story and says: “This is what can happen when we send our children the mixed message that some animals we love and some we hurt and kill. This teenager doesn’t need jail time, he needs therapy”.
A teen accused of setting a caged cat on fire in an incident that was caught on camera has avoided jail time. Roberto Hernandez, 19, was sentenced to five years of probation. He will also serve 100 hours of community service, must undergo a psychological evaluation and will be enrolled in a recidivism reduction program as part of a plea deal. Hernandez, who was facing an animal cruelty charge, was 17 when the incident happened in July 2016. Hernandez and family members claimed the animal was a raccoon that was believed to have been attacking other animals and had rabies. Surveillance footage showed Hernandez dousing the animal that was in a cage with liquid and setting it on fire.
Amy Jean Davis is an animal rights advocate and the Founder of LA Animal Save, the Los Angeles chapter of the global Save Movement. Originally from a small town in Indiana, Amy came to Los Angeles in 2008 as a top 24 Finalist on season 7 of American Idol.
Davis graduated Purdue University in 2004. After having become vegan in 2002, she started an animal sanctuary in the Los Angeles, California area. In 2015, she completed her certificate in Plant Based Nutrition from eCornell, and in 2016, Amy founded LA Animal Save, which is now the largest chapter of more than 600 Save groups worldwide.
Amy also works with her partner, filmmaker Shaun Monson (EARTHLINGS, UNITY), creating films and other media for the animal rights movement. Amy and Shaun welcomed a human vegan earthling named Phoenix in November of 2018.
For more information, visit www.laanimalsave.org
About LA Animal Save:
Founded in 2016 by Amy Jean Davis, LA Animal Save (http://laanimalsave.org) is the largest chapter of the 600+ Save Movement groups around the world. The Save Movement (www.TheSaveMovement.org), which began in Toronto, Canada, bears witness to the suffering and oppression of pigs, cows, chickens and other farmed animals en route to slaughter. Using a love-based, community-organizing approach, volunteer animal rights advocates hold regular, peaceful vigils at slaughterhouses, live markets, and factory farms in order to be present in the face of animal injustice, raise awareness about the plight of farmed animals, help people to become vegan, and continue to build a grassroots animal justice movement based on the principles of animal equality and freedom.