LAGRANGE, Ky. -- Three teenagers have been charged in connection with the June 15 killing of a kitten in LaGrange.

Lynn Robinson of LaGrange said someone broke into her barn and stole a 10-week-old kitten from its litter. She told police the cat was thrown high into the air with the intention of being tossed into a nearby swimming pool. The cat missed the pool, was paralyzed and then hit over the head with a garden tool.

18-year-old Tanner Hublar two other teenagers are charged with cruelty to animals and burglary.

Photograph courtesy WAVE-3 is of the kitten's surviving littermates.