The 19-year-old Loveland man who pleaded guilty to aggravated cruelty to animals was sentenced to 6 years in Community Corrections on Monday for harming his girlfriend’s kitten.

Khalin Lovely was sentenced Monday in 8th Judicial District Court in Fort Collins for the class four felony to which he had pleaded guilty Aug. 11, according to court records.

“The actions in this case — I watched three short clips — are particularly disturbing,” said Judge Juan Villasenor while delivering the sentence. “Harming a small animal from all I could tell was trying to get away from him … choked it, beat it, sat on it crushing it, and by all accounts performed what the statute calls ‘acts of cruelty.’”

Lovely was arrested Dec. 29 after Cynthia Bond, the mother of his girlfriend, Abigail Backman, became

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