{"id":1106740,"date":"2022-06-01T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/01\/zouma-given-community-service-after-kicking-cat\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T16:00:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T16:00:38","slug":"zouma-given-community-service-after-kicking-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/01\/zouma-given-community-service-after-kicking-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Zouma Given Community Service After Kicking Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>West Ham United defender Kurt Zouma has been ordered to carry out 180 hours of community service after he pleaded guilty to kicking and slapping his cat.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old has also been banned from keeping cats for five years.<\/p>\n<p>He had admitted two offences under the Animal Welfare Act at a hearing at Thames Magistrates\u2019 Court in May.<\/p>\n<p>Zouma\u2019s brother Yoan, who plays for Dagenham and Redbridge, was ordered to carry out 140 hours of community service at the 15-minute hearing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth of you took part in this disgraceful and reprehensible act with this pet cat,\u201d said district judge Susan Holdham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cat looked up to you to care for its needs. On that date in February you did not provide for its needs. You must be aware that others look up to you and many young people aspire to emulate you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yoan, 24, filmed the incident at his older brother\u2019s home and posted it on Snapchat with \u2018laughing\u2019 emojis on 6 February.<\/p>\n<p>It was later seen by a woman who had been messaging Yoan, and she raised concern.<\/p>\n<p>Zouma could be seen kicking the Bengal cat across his kitchen, before throwing a pair of shoes at it and slapping its head.<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham United defender Kurt Zouma has been ordered to carry out 180 hours of community service after he pleaded guilty to kicking and slapping his cat. The 27-year-old has also been banned from keeping cats for five years. He had admitted two offences under the Animal Welfare Act at a hearing at Thames Magistrates\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1106742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4537,1557,4538,185,4670],"class_list":["post-1106740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cat","tag-community","tag-kicking","tag-service","tag-zouma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106740","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=1106740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}