This news item from the Cornell Chronicle is about: In animal cruelty cases, it’s important for the sake of the animals – and for society – that someone is there to reveal truth and serve justice. Sean McDonough is one of those people. In 2012, a 12-year-old girl in Orleans County reported she had witnessed a man kick a kitten to death in the parking lot of the apartment complex where she lived. The man, who lived at the complex with his girlfriend, claimed the kitten had fallen from a tree and died, and he was simply moving it out of the way.