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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Terrible in our country when a dogs value has more than a newborns.... my heart just aches....
So many sick people in this world and it just keeps getting worse with the rise in population. Young girls/women can be so psychotic anyway who make no sense; not even to themselves.
Sometimes I wonder if a new world flood isn’t about due. Of course the Ark could never be built in the USA with all the rules and regulations. Maybe Africa and they have a lot of the animals anyway.
Totally agree. I know people who consider dogs property only who say, “Why cause unnecessary pain or unnecessarily waste a life?” Somebody who sees that the dog owner here as nearly non-liable is a special kind of sick.
Yep. Animals > humans at this point.
You see it here - Throw the guy away for life! Give him the chair! He should have gotten decades!
My God. It was a dog.
Funny these same people don’t care when baby seals are clubbed to death, or dolphins are killed en masse. But tape a dogs muzzle shut and it’s on like donkey kong. Makes me laugh.
You laughing at animal abuse says more about your own character than the good people you disparage.
Laughing at animal abuse?
No. I’m laughing at hypocrites.
Now there's another one of these snout closing crimes in the news.
Puppy’s chances improve after being brought in with mouth bound shut
I wouldn’t want you to be within 10 square miles of any of my dogs or anyone’s for that matter.
I’ve known people like you; severely damaged from your upbringing I suppose but damaged nonetheless.
Anyone who doesn’t already know most dogs are better than most people will never get it and yes I do eat meat, not a lot but some, and I do know some of them are treated poorly and yes that bothers me.
PETA is a joke and a fraud. It may have been about watching out for the animals at the beginning of its existence but those days are long over with.
WTF is *wrong* with people??
[maybe it was a FReeper from this thread?]
It made my skin crawl.
This place has gone to hell.
No, you’re laughing at animal abuse, and lying about those who oppose it, as though you could somehow be justified in your actions if only your lies were believed.
You may think the moderators saved you from yourself by deleting your most vile post, but many of us still remember what you wrote. And your remaining posts have clearly spelled out your perverted set of beliefs. So you may as well drop the innocent act. Nobody’s buying it.
Some trolls like this sick pervert have crept in, but they haven’t taken over. This is still Jim’s house, and I’m sure he will zot this sicko in due time.
It can’t come soon enough.
To often, I find myself shocked by what people think, let alone “say out loud” where God and everybody can see it.
You gotta wonder what they think and do, when no one can see them.
Abuse animals? Would not surprise me. Makes me sick to my core.
It makes you wonder.
I share your feelings....I hope we’re both wrong, for the sake of whatever pets they may have.
So you condone, and even encourage, this sort of thing. That’s fantastic.
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