Man who filmed cat being kicked like ‘a football field goal’ then doused in gas and lit on fire sentenced to federal prison

Decorius Mire (Beaumont Police Dept.)

Decorius Mire (Beaumont Police Dept.)

A 24-year-old man in Texas will spend more than a year behind bars after he admitted to filming himself and another man abhorrently torturing a cat, including one of them kicking the animal like “a football field goal” before setting it on fire and posting the videos to social media. U.S. District Judge Marcia A. Crone on Monday ordered Decorius Mire to serve a sentence of 18 months in federal prison for his horrific conduct, authorities announced.

Mire reached a deal with federal prosecutors and pleaded guilty to one count of animal crushing. In exchange for his guilty plea, prosecutors agreed to drop a second animal-crushing count for which he had previously been indicted.

Under federal criminal law, animal crushing is defined as “actual conduct in which one or more living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians, is purposely crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled, or otherwise subjected to serious bodily injury.”

According to a criminal indictment filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Mire and another man, Donaldvan Williams, were in Beaumont, Texas, when they encountered a “live domestic cat who was convulsing and foaming at the mouth as if having been poisoned.” Instead of rendering aid to the cat, Williams “kicked the cat as if kicking a football field goal,” prosecutors wrote.

“The kick propelled the cat through the air, a distance of approximately 15-20 feet,” the document states.

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