JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — Prosecutors filed animal cruelty charges Friday against two Louisville residents accused of allowing more than 40 emaciated cats to live in squalor in a dilapidated house.

        The house smelled so bad because of the felines' waste that authorities initially thought it housed a methamphetamine lab.

        Investigators said Albert Beasley, 38, and his sister, Audra Beasley, 30, face one count each of cruelty to an animal, a Class B misdemeanor. Mr. Beasley will also be charged with false informing.

        The Beasleys are scheduled to be formally charged June 20. If convicted, they could face up to 180 days in jail and $1,000 fines.

        Indiana State Police on May 22 found 40 disheveled, skinny, sore-riddled cats living in their own waste without much food or water. The cats, some of which were missing eyes and limbs, were all over the house, in the rafters and inside the walls.

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