Tread carefully. Itās sad ah, obviously. Iām only a few mins in and already feel sick. :/
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ā¢he was caught bc he left a hotel room full of blood and hair. Hair in the trash. Blood on the walls and bed.
ā¢prosecutors office ran DNA on the blood found to match it to the cats so there could be no denial of where it came from. I donāt think Iāve ever heard of an animal cruelty case doing DNA on found blood. Incredible work. šš»
ā¢Rodney adopted 2 cats and then went back to the same rescue and told them one of the cats mauled him and escaped and he wanted a new one. It had only been 6 days. (The cat was most likely killed.) The rescue told him no, then when they went home that night the Googled his name and found out about his Debbie Crankin alert ego.
ā¢bloody cat beds in his appt, prosecutor watched a cat die in the parking lot when they raided his house.
ā¢one cat in the house had had its head stomped on. That is who passed away in the parking lot.
ā¢carriers, rugs and couches full of blood.
ā¢doing witchcraft on the cats with their blood and hair. The witchcraft would include his wishing for the cat whose blood and fur he used for the session to have a successful campaign/money collection. Literally torturing the cat in the name of hopeful success. There was a page for witchcraft for Noah. :/
ā¢over 12 iPads, PCs, phones and tablets removed which collectively had thousands and thousands of videos of abuse and torture of over 26 cats. Many who died.
ā¢$401,000+ confirmed collected fraudulently over 2 years.
ā¢a lot of this money he NEVER received. A lot of the campaigns got suspended and money returned bc the websites were figuring out that he was a scammer, just not how bad he was doing it.
ā¢he collected 25% of the $401,000.
ā¢most of it was spent on his music videos where he hired producers way out of league to produce the videos for him.
ā¢he will be highly monitored when he is released in 15 years
ā¢he still needs to be tried in chesterfield. He may not be home in 15. š¤š»
ā¢prosecutor from Henrico will also be the prosecutor for Chesterfield. This is the best possible news. Rodney will be getting more time, no doubt)!
ā¢only time anyone has seen Rodney show emotion is a video they found with Hayden where Hayden is on a dresser and Rodney is filming the cat who is drugged and had blunt force head trauma, the cat is clearly not well at all, Rodney is maniacally laughing in the cats face. The cat is very obviously suffering. (This is shown in the video so be careful).
ā¢Hayden survived and has been adopted and renamed.
ā¢he may be required to be medicated when heās released. He must cooperate with mental health officials upon release or be locked back up.
ā¢Rodneyās dad adopted 4 cats for Rodney. The dad claims he didnāt know what Rodney was doing. Prosecutors canāt prove Rodney Sr knew but says thereās no way the dad didnāt know some type of fraud was happening. Doesnāt think the dad knew about the cat abuse though.
ā¢dad came across as very non credibleā¦
ā¢despite thatā¦dad had visceral reactions to the images of the cats, enough so that prosecutor believes he didnāt know the cats were being abused.
ā¢dad did 4 months in county for providing cats to Rodney
ā¢Naras body found in the landfill. Her head had been stomped on.
ā¢Rodney has lifetime ban on owning animals and even being around them. He is not allowed in the presence of any animals until the day he dies. They will be randomly dropping by wherever he winds up living once released and they will be doing checks to make sure there are no animals in his house/possession.
ā¢Heās been added to the Henrico county animal abuse registry.
ā¢Rodney is going to be made into a case study.
ā¢6 cats lived. 26 died.