Prison sentence for animal cruelty? Here is the number of cases in Hungary

How many people end up in prison because of animal cruelty? Beheading a goat and torturing a dog were enough reasons to get someone imprisoned in Hungary, but people who commit animal cruelty usually get away with it and receive less severe punishment.

According to Blikk, until 30^th September, three people have received a custodial sentence for cruelty to animals. As the data they received from the Hungarian National Office for the Judiciary shows, the number of people who received such punishment is the same as it was last year.

On the other hand, this year, seven people ended up in prison due to committing cruelty to animals plus some other crime, while last year, this number was nine. This means that in total, twenty-two people received severe punishment for committing cruelty to animals in the last two years.

In 2018, five, in 2017, seven, and in 2016, only four people were punished with a custodial sentence for animal cruelty only, while combined with another crime, these numbers were seven, twenty-three, and twenty-one.

The extremely cruel and repetitive cases are the ones that usually result in imprisonment. For example, a goat was beheaded one and a half weeks ago in Kaposvár. The goat named Rozi lived in the ‘Kutyatár’ Nature and Animal Protection Association in Kaposvár. It was cruelly executed – the perpetrator cut off and took the goat’s head with him.