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October 14, 2005

15 Not Enough

A local idiot just got 15 days for animal cruelty....when what he should've gotten was horsewhipped & dragged behind his truck. Sound harsh? Not nearly as harsh as what he did to a little 10-month old colt.

In order to teach him to lead or to punish him for biting the guy's daughter, depending on which story he's telling at the time, this budding genius horsewhisperer tied that little feller behind his truck & drove around at 35-40 mph for over an hour. The result?

Deputy Prosecutor Drew Ledbetter said during trial police measured a trail of blood behind the colt stretching 1,460 feet -- 511 of those were on gravel.

"The colt was severely dehydrated -- even the dehydration was life-threatening ... it had scrapes and abrasions on its leg and back," Ledbetter said. "The hooves of each leg were worn completely off, with the raw coffin bone exposed on each hoof ... meat was hanging off."

That's right. He dragged that little guy around until the road abraded his little hooves down to the bone. And the jury only gave him a 15 day jail sentence.

At least the judge got it right.

Benton County Circuit Judge Tom Keith refused work release for McKinley, saying, "This jury has been generous with you. I've always said, for those who abuse the innocent there's a reservation in the hottest places in hell."

Indeed.

Posted by Rita at October 14, 2005 03:45 AM

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I'm now sick to my stomach.

Hell is too good for someone like that.

Posted by: Keith at October 16, 2005 10:32 PM

Wasn't that awful? You should've seen the video of the poor little thing they showed on the local evening news. The vet has sure done a remarkable job with that colt. He'll never recover completely, but he's doing much better now.

He used ignorance as a defense, claiming he'd never been around horses & someone told him that was a good way to break them to lead. And since the statute under which he was charged required "knowingly" harming an animal, he got off with a slap on the wrist.

Which may've been the correct result, but it wasn't justice.

Posted by: Rita [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 16, 2005 11:46 PM