Overview
- Los Angeles County prosecutors charged 25-year-old Nikolas Hart with six counts, including felony animal cruelty related to his girlfriend’s pet rabbit.
- The misdemeanor counts include injuring a spouse or cohabitant, attempting to dissuade a witness, and three violations of a no-contact order.
- He pleaded not guilty and is being held on $150,000 bail under a judge’s order that bars him from owning or caring for animals.
- A preliminary hearing is scheduled, and prosecutors say a conviction on all counts could mean up to eight years in state prison.
- Prosecutors allege the Feb. 11 incident involved stomping the two-month-old rabbit named Momo and throwing it from a second-floor apartment, killing the animal by blunt force trauma.