The Pennsylvania woman convicted of euthanizing her cancer-stricken neighbor's Siberian Husky will serve jail time.
Gisele Paris, 58, was sentenced to three to six months in jail on Friday, followed by 18 months of probation, WPXI reports.
Paris made headlines last December when she was found guilty of cruelty to animals, receiving stolen property and theft.
She was accused of stealing her neighbor's healthy dog, named Thor, in November 2013 and then, three months later, having the dog put down in her home. Paris insisted the dog was sick and had been neglected by his owner, Mark Boehler, who is undergoing treatment for stage 3 cancer.
In a victim impact statement, Boehler tearfully lamented the loss of his pup, CBS Pittsburgh reports.
"It wasn't her dog. She took it into her hands to bury on her property with her family pets," he said. "It was my family pet. I had him for over eight years. She had him for two months. He didn't last two months with her, but he lasted over eight years with me, so who treated him right?"
But Paris's cousin called the verdict "unjust."
"The problem here was the maltreatment and abuse of the animal in the first place by its owner who has performed theatrics for you, the media, happily and in the courtroom," Barry Paris told CBS Pittsburgh.
However, an investigation of Boehler's home turned up no evidence of abuse.
Gisele Paris, 58, was sentenced to three to six months in jail on Friday, followed by 18 months of probation, WPXI reports.
Paris made headlines last December when she was found guilty of cruelty to animals, receiving stolen property and theft.
She was accused of stealing her neighbor's healthy dog, named Thor, in November 2013 and then, three months later, having the dog put down in her home. Paris insisted the dog was sick and had been neglected by his owner, Mark Boehler, who is undergoing treatment for stage 3 cancer.
In a victim impact statement, Boehler tearfully lamented the loss of his pup, CBS Pittsburgh reports.
"It wasn't her dog. She took it into her hands to bury on her property with her family pets," he said. "It was my family pet. I had him for over eight years. She had him for two months. He didn't last two months with her, but he lasted over eight years with me, so who treated him right?"
But Paris's cousin called the verdict "unjust."
"The problem here was the maltreatment and abuse of the animal in the first place by its owner who has performed theatrics for you, the media, happily and in the courtroom," Barry Paris told CBS Pittsburgh.
However, an investigation of Boehler's home turned up no evidence of abuse.