A Bradford man is in McKean County Jail on allegations he abused a kitten.

Brandon Scott Brooks-Ledbetter, 20, of 20 Main St., Apt. 3D, was arraigned Tuesday before Magisterial District Judge Dominic Cercone on one charge of cruelty to animals, a first-degree misdemeanor, court records stated.

Court records said on Friday, Brooks-Ledbetter and his wife, Lynzee Fellows, were invited to have dinner with neighbors Kenneth Noll and Jamie Case in an apartment on the same floor. There, an argument took place between Brooks-Ledbetter and Noll. Brooks-Ledbetter was asked to leave.

That same day, in the hallway in view of Case and Noll, Brooks-Ledbetter brought his kitten out of the apartment, wrapped its hands around its neck and smashed its head against the wall several times, court records stated.

The next day, Brooks-Ledbetter and his wife asked the same neighbors to take care of their cat and kitten while they went to Warren. When they went to check on the pets, they found the kitten “was laying face first in its own feces motionless, was unable to breath properly, and looked to have the back legs broken,” court records read.

Bradford City Police and the McKean County SPCA were brought in. The kitten had a broken spine, and indentation in its head, multiple pelvic breaks and “mold growing on the bottom side of the kitten,” according to court records. The animal had to be euthanized due to the extent of its injuries.

Brooks-Ledbetter was committed to jail in lieu of $10,000 bail. He is scheduled to appear in Central Court on Feb. 9.