3 years ago
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) -- An 80-year-old woman who hoarded more than 75 cats in her Columbia town house must pay Howard County Animal Control more than $10,000 in restitution and is barred from owning pets ever again. Court documents show that authorities found 58 live cats and 17 dead ones, some infested with maggots, inside Ayten Icgoren's town home. Fifty of the live cats were euthanized. In March, Icgoren entered an Alford plea to animal cruelty charges, meaning she acknowledged that prosecutors had enough evidence to convict her.
A Howard County judge ordered three years of probation for Icgoren with routine house checks and gave her a suspended 360-day sentence.
Neighbors testified that the house still reeks of urine. In her plea, Icgoren said her neighbors were liars who never saw the inside of her home.
