Homes hide 33 dead cats

What started as a probe of a cat bite in the Fox Den neighborhood instead has led to the filing of more than 26 charges of animal cruelty against Sylvia Sexton. More charges are pending, Head said.

Sexton owned a house in Fox Den on Champions Point but apparently did not stay there at night, Head said.

On June 19, Animal Control officers Debra Beeler and Tina Lee received a complaint of a cat biting someone in the subdivision. In tracking down the owner of the cat, the officers wound up three days later at Sexton's home armed with a search warrant compiled by Knox County Assistant District Attorney General Steve Garrett.

Once inside Sexton's house, the officers witnessed a macabre scene, according to the arrest warrants.

Warrants state Beeler and Lee found 26 cat carcasses in various stages of decomposition, some so old they had "mummified."

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