UK woman caught on camera tossing cat into garbage bin says sorry for her ‘misjudgment’
By APWednesday, August 25, 2010
UK woman says sorry for dumping cat in trash
LONDON — A British woman caught on surveillance camera dumping a cat in a garbage bin has apologized for what she called misjudgment.
Online footage of Mary Bale tossing 4-year-old Lola into a bin outraged thousands of viewers around the world, and some animal lovers have posted angry messages pledging retribution.
The 45-year-old Bale said Wednesday in a statement she can’t explain why tossed the cat in the trash but that she is profoundly sorry. She says “it is completely out of character” and a “split second of misjudgment.”
Investigators at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which prosecutes cruelty cases, say Lola was trapped for 15 hours before being rescued on Sunday morning by her owners. The distressed cat was unharmed.
