Kitten cruelty case thrown out

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) - There is no evidence that a Hatfield woman threw kittens out of her moving car in Northampton two months ago, state police say.

Police are not pressing charges against 54 year-old Judith Thornton, as they say they never found anything that would have seemed to indicate that she ever even had cats in her car.

The investigation began on August 5, when, according to State Police Media Relations, a woman called 9-1-1 saying that her daughter witnessed someone throwing kittens out of a car on Route 5 southbound.

State Police Spokesperson David Procopio says witnesses reported seeing a cat in the road behind a car that Thornton was driving, as well as a second cat seen flying through the air near the driver’s side of her vehicle.

Procopio says that Thornton fully cooperated with police, and allowed them to search her car, where they found no evidence of cat hair or anything else that would suggest kittens had been there. The witnesses also did not see Thornton’s arms coming out of the car window, and couldn’t even confirm whether her window was even rolled down.