Crazy Jersey lady can't have animals for five years and then she can start killing them again

NEW JERSEY -- Sporting feathers in her hair, a former animal rescue volunteer was sentenced Friday to five years' probation for neglecting scores of birds found dead in her home.

Superior Court Judge John R. Tassini placed Gretchen Rell Rochkovsky, 57, on (unsupervised) probation for five years and banned her from owning or taking any animals into her home during that period.

Tassini also banned her from having any contact with the Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals where she once volunteered, and ordered her to perform 30 hours of community service and comply with all recommendations resulting from a psychiatric evaluation.

Rell Rochkovsky pleaded guilty July 28 to animal cruelty, admitting to Tassini that she neglected a number of animals she had taken into her home, and as a result, 100 birds died from lack of food and care.

Before the judge handed down the sentence, he gave Rell Rochkovsky an opportunity to address him. She said she wanted to clarify a point that the assistant prosecutor on the case had just made, and with that, she broke into laughter.

Her attorney quickly rushed to her side to confer with her, and afterward, Rell Rochkovsky said, "I have decided on the advice of the attorney not to have any comments to say."

Outside the courtroom, Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Melanie Falco said the number of dead animals found by authorities in Rell Rochkovsky's home on Mitchell Place on March 9 was actually 357, and most of them were birds.

So basically she was given about five days of unsupervised probation for each animal which suffered and died. Do you think those animals only suffered for five days before death ended their misery and suffering? She should be on probation for the rest of her hideous, crazy, miserable life. I hope a bird pecks out her eyeballs like in the Alfred Hitchcock movie...

Authorities have said there also were some dead rabbits, turtles, mice, opposums and other mammals that could not be identified because of their state of decomposition.

Leaving the courthouse, when a reporter asked Rell Rochkovsky where she got the feathers that she donned in her hair, she responded, "They're synthetic."

(WFMY News 2-Sep 26, 2014)

Earlier:

• Hundreds of dead birds found in Little Silver, Ocean Twp. homes of SPCA aide
• SPCA was warned about Monmouth County dead bird hoarder but didn’t visit home
• Woman with hundreds of dead birds in home pleads not guilty