79-year-old woman sentenced to jail for feeding stray cats

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As if a judge in Garfield Heights doesn’t have anything else to do besides sentencing a 79-year-old woman to jail for feeding stray cats, it seems Nancy Segula will soon be spending ten days behind bars.

According to Fox News, Nancy began feeding the cats a few years ago when the owner moved away, and the cats arrived at her front porch obviously looking for food. And so, being a compassionate human, Nancy fed the cats. Then Nancy’s neighbor, who obviously doesn’t have a kind feeling for abandoned felines, called the authorities and Nancy was issued a ticket.

Since then Nancy has received three more citations, and the last one told her to appear in front of a judge who sentenced her to ten days in the Cuyahoga County Jail – told to report on August 11. The judge sentenced her under an ordinance that makes it illegal to feed stray dogs and cats.

On the Garfield Heights Animal Control Facebook page, angry animal advocates are already sounding off:

“Extremely rude and unprofessional. It’s a sad day when an elderly woman is jailed for feeding hungry and homeless animals. The warden should have helped this situation long before it came to that by trapping these animals.”

And so questions remain unanswered. Where was Animal Control to help these abandoned pets? Doesn’t this judge have something better to do than jail an elderly woman for feeding hungry cats?

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7 COMMENTS

  1. Wow ? ?? My former neighbor and I would have been locked up too (we fed strays. Under our city’s laws if one feeds a stray animal for 31 days, that animal is considered your pet. That’s how my husband and I “adopted” 2 cats and a dog)……
    I think this judge is terrible for punishing compassionate behavior……. I wonder if he gives out “free weekends in Las Vegas to animal abusers”???

  2. Nothing worse then a neighbor that can’t mind her own business ! How many cats is she feeding?? If this issue was such a big deal WHY WASNT ANIMAL CONTROL BROUGHT IN SOONER???

  3. Good lord, the cats had been abandoned, if you want to go after someone go after the POS that left them homeless! In this day and age when people are starving their pets and get nothing more than a slap on the wrist, a good samaritan is going to jail for actually trying to help these cats, the whole community, especially the judge should be ashamed!

  4. Wow! If I lived there, I’d be in jail for life! She should be more clandestine about where she feeds the cats (like what most people do).

    Too bad the neighbor and the judge lost their hearts somewhere–if they ever had a heart to begin with!

  5. Shelters are FULL IN OHIO !!!
    What are we sure to do let them starve !! NO !!
    It’s the same as putting any person in jail that feeds a homeless person !! Ridiculous !! No Cat wants to be Homeless !!!! Get a Heart ❤️ Judge !!!!!

  6. This action is a travesty. Going to jail for acts of compassion. Why wasn’t aco involved helping this woman out. Why were owners not pursued. Did the woman have an attorney. All this due to the actions of a few wayward disgusting neighbors and who is feeding the cats now? How would this magistrate like to go around without food, water and shelter? This woman should be given a medal for kindness, not a stupid jail sentence.

  7. Did you read this idiocy? “Update 8/6/19: A judge has suspended Segula’s 10-day jail sentence, but has ordered her to speak to a psychologist about her depression. The Garfield Heights Animal Warden and animal rights advocates have helped remove the stray cats from Segula’s property. Though the jail sentence is suspended, Segula must refrain from feeding stray cats moving forward, and remove shelter-providing items from her yard. Thank you to everyone who signed the petition! \” I beg to differ. It is the judge’s OPINION that she is depressed – did he go to medical school all of a sudden? Can he diagnose depression now? I call a lot of bull. She is feeding cats. Sounds like a compassionate person. I’m glad the cat’s were removed as I fully expected Segula to poison the cats.

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