PALM BAY, Fla. (WFLA) — An 18-year-old Florida man is behind bars after deputies said he waterboarded a cat and threw the animal off a third-floor balcony.
“We’re about to walk a sorry individual into our jail for animal cruelty,” Sheriff Wayne Ivey of the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office said on Wednesday.
Kieran McKinney, 18, of Brevard County, “likes to beat up cats,” the Sheriff added, after accusing the teen of torturing the animal.
On Oct. 18, Palm Bay police responded to a domestic call after McKinney was involved in an altercation with another individual. It was during that response that they discovered the animal cruelty, in which they reached out to the sheriff’s office to investigate.
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Sheriff Ivey said several different instances of the abuse occurred out of retaliation. One time McKinney threw the cat onto a couch, and another time he threw the cat from a third-floor balcony, across the parking lot, and broke its leg.
A video, which can be viewed above, also shows McKinney waterboarding the cat, by using a hose to spray the animal three different times while it was locked in his carrier…