PARIS – A judge refused to accept a plea Wednesday from a 24-year-old man accused of trashing his ex-girlfriend’s apartment in Norway and killing her kittens.

David Coffren of Salem Road in Salem Township was attempting to enter a guilty plea in the Oxford County Superior Court to a complaint of burglary, aggravated criminal mischief, and two counts of cruelty to animals.

Assistant District Attorney Joseph O’Connor recommended that Coffren serve 90 days of a two-year sentence, as well as a period of probation and restitution payments.

“I’m not accepting that,” Justice Roland Cole said. “This is outrageous behavior.”

Cole said Coffren’s conduct toward the animals made him concerned regarding Coffren’s potential behavior toward his ex-girlfriend. He said he may also want Coffren to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

O’Connor said Coffren had forced his way into his ex-girlfriend’s apartment on Main Street in Norway prior to the incident. On Oct. 17, police responded to the apartment for a report that it had been vandalized.

O’Connor said the damage included broken glasses and DVDs as well as food thrown on the walls.

“There’s obviously going to be a considerable amount of restitution,” O’Connor said. “Everything that could have been broken was pretty much broken.”

In addition to the damage, police found the woman’s two kittens dead in the apartment’s stairwell. Chief Robert Federico of the Norway Police Department said a veterinarian determined the kittens’ cause of death to be blunt force trauma.

Federico estimated the damage at the apartment to be more than $5,000. Coffren was arrested three days later by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office on a warrant issued by Federico.

Coffren remained at the Oxford County Jail on $5,000 cash or $20,000 surety bail on Wednesday afternoon.