{"id":1096576,"date":"2022-05-23T13:32:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T13:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/23\/kurt-zouma-charged-after-kicking-his-cat\/"},"modified":"2022-05-23T13:32:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T13:32:17","slug":"kurt-zouma-charged-after-kicking-his-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/23\/kurt-zouma-charged-after-kicking-his-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Zouma charged after kicking his cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"497\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/zouma-westham-750x536-1-696x497.jpg\"   alt=\"Kurt Zouma\" title=\"Kurt Zouma\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kurt Zouma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>West Ham defender Kurt Zouma has been charged with three offences under the Animal Welfare Act after allegedly harming his cat.<\/p>\n<p>Zouma\u2019s brother Yoan, who plays for Dagenham and Redbridge, has been charged with two alleged offences following an RSPCA investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Yoan, 23, filmed 27-year-old Kurt kicking and slapping one of his pets.<\/p>\n<p>The Zouma brothers are set to appear at Thames Magistrates\u2019 Court on Tuesday for a first hearing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>After the video appeared in February, the RSPCA\u00a0removed two cats\u00a0from Kurt\u2019s home and began liaising with Essex Police about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The RSPCA continues to care for the two cats.<\/p>\n<p>Kurt is accused of two counts of causing \u201cunnecessary suffering\u201d to the cat by kicking it in the abdomen and slapping it in the head.<\/p>\n<p>He is also charged with failing to protect the cat from \u201cpain suffering, injury or disease\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Yoan is accused of two counts of \u201caiding, abetting, counselling or procuring\u201d Kurt to commit the offence of causing unnecessary suffering to the cat.<\/p>\n<p>Kurt was fined\u00a0a reported \u00a3250,000\u00a0and was dropped by a number of sponsors, but continued to play for the Hammers.<\/p>\n<p>Yoan has not played for Dagenham and Redbridge since 29 January.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"iFCT06QAjgg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ebewiase Chatroom on Adom TV (20-5-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iFCT06QAjgg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Zouma West Ham defender Kurt Zouma has been charged with three offences under the Animal Welfare Act after allegedly harming his cat. Zouma\u2019s brother Yoan, who plays for Dagenham and Redbridge, has been charged with two alleged offences following an RSPCA investigation. Yoan, 23, filmed 27-year-old Kurt kicking and slapping one of his pets. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1096578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4537,3413,4538,1603,4670],"class_list":["post-1096576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cat","tag-charged","tag-kicking","tag-kurt","tag-zouma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}