Disgusted judge puts away woman who ate cat in stomach-turning video: ‘You’ve embarrassed this nation’

A sick Ohio woman who killed and ate a cat was hit with a one-year jail sentence on Monday as a furious judge slammed her for the repulsive stomach-turning act.

“To me, you present quite a danger to our community,” Stark County Common Pleas Judge Frank Forchione told Allexis Ferrell, 27, the Massillon Independent reported.

“This is repulsive to me. I mean, that anyone would do this to an animal. And an animal’s like a child. I don’t know if you understand that or not,” the judge said. “I can’t express the disappointment, shock, disgust that this crime has brought to me.

“I don’t know what could prompt anyone to want to eat a cat.”

He then sentenced Ferrell, who pleaded guilty to a felony charge of animal cruelty.

The case drew national headlines in September, when news of the case spread one month after Ferrell was busted — in the middle of the frenzy over a since-refuted claim by President-elect Donald Trump that Haitian immigrants in Springfield were eating local pets.

Officials said Ferrell is not an immigrant and her case is not tied to that claim.

Disturbing police bodycam footage of the Aug. 16 incident shows Ferrell on all fours outdoors eating the cat as horrified neighbors looked on and Canton cops arrived after getting a 911 call.

“What did you do?” one cop is heard asking. “Why did you kill the cat?”

In court Monday, the judge called Ferrell a national embarrassment.

“You’ve embarrassed this county,” the judge said. “You’ve embarrassed this nation. More importantly, you’ve embarrassed yourself.”

Stark County prosecutor Chelsea Small told The Post Monday that the one-year sentence for the cat-eating incident will be tacked on to a separate 18-month sentence Ferrell was hit with for two prior crimes — a 2019 theft case and a child endangerment case from last year.

“It’s one of the most disturbing cases that I’ve seen as a prosecutor,” Small said of the cat incident.

Defense attorney Stephen Kandel told the Massillon Independent that “it’s clear that [Ferrell] has an issue with drugs and alcohol, through her evaluation, through her past history.”

He said he has arranged for his client to undergo inpatient treatment after her release.