KINGSTON – A 31-year-old Accord man has been sentenced in Ulster
County Court to six months in jail and five years of probation for killing
his girlfriend’s dog, Roxy, because the eight-year-old pet urinated
on furniture.
Judge Donald Williams last Thursday granted the district attorney’s
request that Michael Oramas receive counseling and forfeit his right to
own or care for any animal after his release from prison.
In October 2015, Oramas pled guilty admitting that he had inflicted injuries
that caused Roxy’s death on March 26, 2015. Roxy died from blunt
force trauma injuries that included broken ribs, a punctured lung, and
broken mandible, as well as other internal injuries inflicted on her for
urinating on household furniture. According to Assistant DA Emmanuel Nneji,
the dog’s owner had a four-year-old son and is engaged to, and lives
with, Oramas. She was present in court and sought to have him sentenced
to probation with counseling.
