Obsessed animal lover Dorota Trec underwent a court-ordered psychiatric exam Wednesday – two months after she was found guilty of abusing 100 rabbits that lived outside her Gowanus home in a trial at which she acted as her own lawyer.
The official results will be released later in February, but Trec, who faces up to two years behind bars, hinted that she won’t be doing hard time.
“I think this is leading to not putting me in prison,” Trec, 36, said outside the Brooklyn Supreme courtroom.
She believes she’ll instead be ordered to “come for treatment [by] a psychologist.”
Trec, who was charged with mistreating 125 of the furballs, represented herself during the wacky three-week jury trial.
The Polish-born bunny breeder said the person who evaluated her “was very surprised I did the case myself and that the same person who goes for an evaluation is allowed to do [a] trial.”
Earlier this month, Judge Curtis Farber said he was worried about “serious mental health issues” and ordered Trec to undergo the psych exam before he handed down his sentence.
“I am trying very hard to think of an appropriate sentence in your case,” he told her at the Jan. 13 hearing.
“I am not sick,” Trec shouted to the judge. “I am a very intelligent person.”
In December, the ASPCA came to seize 45 bunnies of the 90 Trec had from her yard. She claims she’s been trying to give the remaining furry creatures away ever since.
“I am always going to have animals around. Who can stop me? They will have to put me in jail,” Trec said Wednesday. “If [Judge Farber] puts me in prison, I will continue to work on plans” to build a bunny sanctuary.
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