Was the "city guy" charged with anything? Horsewhipping would have been my choice for him. High noon. Town sqaure.
As for this lady, we know one thing about her: she's stupid; when your story makes national news, it's time to cut your losses and return the dog. If she doesn't, she's going to be known forever as "the lady who took the hurricane victim's dog." And as somebody else on the thread said, God help her poor kids.
No, he never was because only old Jesse was a witness and in a court of law, he couldn't have proved a negative by saying he *didn't* give them over willingly and he did sign the paper.
His ability to read was limited by educational shortfall and very bad eyesight.
Who knows what the paper actually said.
He wouldn't have known how to "do anything about it", anyway.
He was very old, very under-educated and without anyone who had the savvy to help him.
We found out about it quite a while after the fact, just shortly before he died.
What goes around -always- comes around, one way or another.
According to the reporters to whom she won't speak, she has the dog locked up behind a high fence.
[maybe she's afraid it will take off to find its real family]
Whatever the case, the satisfaction she gets from having the dog is nothing less than a Pyhrric victory.
She must be miserable, locked away behind her fence.