The son of Amy Fisher has been charged with animal abuse after he allegedly microwaved a cat, as reported by the New York Post.
25-year-old Brett Anthony Bellera and his girlfriend, 36-year-old Jennifer Armenti were both charged following their arrests. They were charged with aggravated cruelty to animals after a 2024 incident involving their cat, Reaper.
The cat was found "burned to death" in their apartment in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in December 2024. The Broward County Sheriff's Office explained that the cat had suffered severe pain before dying from "involuntary heat exposure".
There are a number of possible ways that the cat could have died. Although whether it was from microwave radiation, exposure to hot water vapor or being placed in hot water is unclear.
These possible ways the cat tragically died were found out by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, who performed a necropsy.
At the time, Armenti said she had found the cat's body on the bathroom floor. She claimed he had managed to ingest cleaning products. However, his corpse was found in a laundry basket on the back patio, in a large pool of blood.
Bellera was already in jail for other charges, including robbery and drugs offenses. It is currently unclear as to how the animal abuse charges will affect this.
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The "Long Island Lolita" Was in the National Spotlight for Years
In case you don't know who Amy Fisher the "Long Island Lolita" is, she was a girl who was groomed by a businessman, 36-year-old Joey Buttafuoco, when she was just 17.
After years of abuse, she believed that in order to be with him, she needed to kill his wife, Mary Jo. So, in 1992, she shot her in the face at her front doorstep.
Luckily, Mary Jo survived. Press branded Fisher the "Long Island Lolita" for what she did, and she served seven years in prison. Joey Buttafuoco served four months in prison for statuatory rape.
She moved to Florida after marrying NYPD officer Lousi Bellera. But, she lamented that her children were "ostracized" there because of her place in the national spotlight.
"My kids were ostracized in Florida," she recalled in a 2017 interview with the outlet. "They had no friends, all the mothers thought their kids would get the Amy Fisher gene if they hung out with them."
