Boy, 13, pleads guilty to setting kitten on fire

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A 13-year-old boy and two others still at large were charged in the Kajang Magistrate's Court on Friday (May 3) for animal cruelty by setting a kitten on fire last week.  CCTV footage of the incident has gone viral.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/3xjwzk68  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00A 13-year-old boy was charged in the Kajang Magistrates' Court on Friday for animal

00:05cruelty by setting a kitten on fire last week.

00:09The teenager pleaded guilty after the charge was read to him before Magistrate Nik Siti

00:14Norazlini, Nik Mohamed Faiz.

00:17The juvenile offender, along with two other men still at large, were accused of causing

00:21unnecessary suffering to an animal.

00:23The offence was alleged to have taken place at a parking lot of an apartment in Sungai

00:28Ramalbaru around 1pm on April 22nd.

00:32The charge was framed under Section 29 Bracket 1E of the Animal Welfare Act 2015, read together

00:39with Section 34 of the Penal Code.

00:42Those found guilty face a fine of not less than 20,000 ringgit and not more than 100,000

00:48ringgit, or a jail term of not less than three years or both.

00:53The court set bail at 1,000 ringgit with one surety and fixed June 27th for submission

00:59of the boy's moral report before sentencing is imposed.

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