By: Don Driggers
A New York City attorney claims his ex-girlfriend went crazy, started spying on him and killed his precious cat.
The NY Post reported, Brad A. Kauffman claims his obsessed ex-lover spent weeks spying on him, hacking his devices, and in a final twisted act, killed his pet, Miyagi, on New Year’s Day 2020.
Kauffman, 50, alleges in Manhattan Supreme Court papers that his former girlfriend, real estate agent Leisa Aras, 46 began monitoring his text messages with a spy app, stalked his social media, posed as imaginary woman to set up dates with Kaufman, and finally slaughtered the lawyer’s cat.
The NY Post reported: “I killed your cat and you better watch out,” Aras allegedly told Kauffman, according to a harassment complaint the lawyer filed against her with the NYPD last year
Aras, a mother of 2 flatly denies the cat killing.
“I certainly didn’t poison his cat. I loved that cat, I picked that cat out with him,” the single mom of two told The Post.
“Everything he’s saying is untrue,” she said. “No, I didn’t use any spyware. I’m not that sophisticated.
“I had seven people at my house at that time, visiting, and he texted me saying Miyagi just passed away,” she claimed. “I went over there and wrapped her up in a T-shirt and put her in a crate so he could take her to the vet — not exactly something that someone who was malicious would do.”
The couple apparently dated since 2015 according to social media and broke up in 2019.
The NY Post reported: Kauffman even represented Aras in a 2016 lawsuit she filed against Con Edison and the city after the motorbike she was riding hit a pothole on West End Avenue, injuring her foot.
Kaufman is an experienced attorney practicing in NYC, specializing in personal injury cases such as car, truck, bus, train, motorcycle, pedestrian and bicycle accidents; sidewalk trip and falls, slip and falls; dog bites; also, cases of Medical Malpractice such as surgeon error; failure to properly/timely diagnose, misdiagnosis of a medical condition; non-diagnosis of a medical condition; nursing home negligence; hospital and doctor errors; wrongful death.
While this couple did not break up over the cat, the animal allegedly was the victim. Often jealous or scorned lovers will go after someone’s pet. This seems too be most common for cats, as cat owners often develop remarkably close relationships to their pets and killing a creature the object of one’s desire loves, is a sick, satisfying form of vengeance.
