Posted on 03/26/2017 11:25:07 AM PDT by Boomer
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- A South Carolina man who wrapped electrical tape around a dog's muzzle to stop her from barking has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Media outlets report William Dodson's sentence Friday represented the state's maximum for animal cruelty. However, Dodson's sentence for mistreating Caitlyn won't extend his prison time.
The 43-year-old North Charleston man was sentenced a day earlier in federal court to 15 years on a gun charge stemming from a traffic stop months before Caitlyn was found in spring 2015. Under a plea agreement, the two sentences will run simultaneously.
"I wish I could give you more," Judge Markley Dennis told Dodson in court Friday.
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They should have taped HIS mouth shut. Feed him intravenously.
Wow! It took me forever to post this due to something going on with the FR server or maybe a DNS server or some other issue that isn’t resolving. Hope it gets fixed soon.
Anyway, If I really had my way, anyone who did something like this would be given not only a mandatory decade in prison but also a physical punishment equal to what they did to the dog or any other animal when animal cruelty is involved. I see no difference between doing this to an animal as I would if it was done to a child. Zero difference. Chances are very good anyone who did this to an animal would soon do it to a person; probably someone innocent and defenseless. Grrrrrr. Get a rope.
I like they way you think and would suggest we take it one step further. Surgically sew his mouth shut except for one little part in the middle where he could fit a straw to eat with. It’s more than he deserves but it would do.
5 years? Are you kidding me. What a joke.
Animals are not equivalent to humans.
5 years? Are you kidding me. What a joke. Animals are not equivalent to humans.
And there they are! The Free Republic Animal Abuse Caucus!
Everyone: there are members of this forum that see absolutely nothing wrong with what this man did.
The dog is his property and he should do whatever he wants with his property.
Conservatives!
Years ago as a Phone Guy in the Hood I saw some pretty terrible animal and child abuse.
I would call the authorities and report the people.
My supervisors told me to mind my own business and fix the phones and leave.
I told them, FU,you send me into that filth,I see it,I report it.
They stoped sending me into the Hood.
What’s disgusting is treating animals like humans.
If he did this to a human it would be 5 years maybe less.
Feed him? Uh, no. They should have neutered the POS. No anesthesia.
Right... and when he no longer feels the thrill out of torturing dumb animals and decides to go after something that understands what he is doing, so he can see the fear of anticipation in his victim’s helpless eyes as he commits his heinous crime—would you think that maybe he should have been stopped when he was “just” torturing animals?
This is how some serial killers have gotten their start, by torturing animals until they no longer get a thrill from it, then moving on to humans.
Animals have the same ability to feel pain and emotion that you do. When I see someone who has no empathy for animals, I strongly suspect they have as little empathy for humans.
Well, you clearly know nothing about dogs because they are aware of themselves. Anyone who has had the pleasure of being a companion to a good dog knows this to be true.
I’m actually kinda sad for you. I’m no bleeding heart liberal and have no problem with hunting for food because I know culling the herds is necessary for the survival of the deer, elk, turkey, boar, feral pigs, etc in general but some animals, like dogs, are not wild animals who operate on pure instinct. I’m sad for you because you haven’t experienced this.
If you did this to a dog I’d be calling for you spend a minimum of 10 years in prison and if the laws don’t allow it; then to change them so they will.
Very few wild animals operate only on instinct, and some are quite intelligent.
There is no excuse to be cruel to any animal. This doesn't mean that they have the same rights as humans--they don't--just that we should always treat them humanely.
What is it with the Ghetto and pit-bulls??? They are not all trained for fighting, are they?
I have a friend who volunteers at a “downtown” animal shelter. Its 90% pit-bulls. founding abused or roaming the streets in “the hood.”
My friend has decided the shelter is just another welfare program - once again, someone else cleaning up the mistakes, irresponsibility, and stupidity of our least civilized citizens.
It is a F#*$&*@ JOKE! WHAT DOES A MUZZLE DO?
IT IS HIS PROPERTY. ANIMALS ARE NOT SENTIENT. THIS IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.
HE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN 5 WEEKS.
Everyone:
This is what happens when an animal abuse advocate is "triggered"
Just like an SJW.
There are just as many weirdos and kooks on the Right as on the Left.
Oh and by the way, why should he have gotten 5 weeks if he did nothing wrong?
Effing weirdo.
What the guy did was wrong. He deserves a stiff penalty for it, and to be sent to prison.
I would have urged a 50 year sentence, one of which would be a stint in prison, with forty-nine years suspended with the provision this never happen again. He would be under the direct supervision of a parole officer for the remaining forty-nine years once out of prison.
He would be required to do 1000 hours of community service in an animal shelter.
If he was involved in any cruelty, or abuse to animals or an infraction involving harm to humans during his parole, he would serve the remaining forty-nine years of his fifty year prison sentence.
At first upon release, he would report to the parole officer once a month, then once a quarter as his demeanor was observed and it was reasoned enough to warrant it.
A guy that would do this to an animal, is highly suspect of what he would do with other life forms, particularly humans.
So five years is too long in some ways off the bat, and too short in other ways.
This guy needs to be kept on a short leash.
One year behind bars is not a cake-walk. Five years under observation is too short.
IT IS HIS PROPERTY. ANIMALS ARE NOT SENTIENT.
Dogs are sentient; i.e.able to perceive or feel. Conscious. Aware.
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