All posts tagged "Animal Cruelty"

A Redlands, California, man who lived in a reputed nudist resort is accused of killing and dismembering two of his neighbors because he felt they mocked him with a $1 hot dog, according to Fox News.

Michael Sparks, 62, was arrested five days after an elderly couple were reported missing in August. He appeared in court for a preliminary hearing this week, at which a judge ruled there was enough evidence for trial.

"They found the suspect at his home in Olive Dell Ranch, billed as a 'family friendly' RV park and a reputed Southern California nudist resort," according to the report. "A cadaver dog alerted police to a bunker underneath the home, where they recovered two bodies, dismembered, mutilated and stored in plastic bags."...

A man in Northwest Alabama drove drunk to his local police station to turn himself in for stabbing his own dog, reported WAFF.

"According to an official with the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, Prisco Hernandez was arrested after he drove to the Russellville Police Station while intoxicated to admit he stabbed his dog to death. Officers took Hernandez’s address, which is outside of city limits, and asked the sheriff’s office to do a welfare check," reported Nick Kremer. "When a deputy arrived at Hernandez’s home, he looked through a window and saw another man passed out inside with blood all over the place. The deputy knocked on the door and the man woke up and answered. He was visibly drunk, according to the deputy."

In a sad twist, the dog was still alive when deputies found it, but died of its injuries soon after....

A Florida woman, already in custody for violating probation, is facing an additional forty years in prison after police turned up animal torture fetish videos she appeared in where she decapitated live chickens and killed rabbits while engaging in sex acts.

A Florida woman is facing animal cruelty charges after investigators say she performed a Caesarean section on a dog without anesthesia, resulting in the dog's death.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) on Monday announced he would veto controversial legislation that would have made it harder to expose animal abuse.

Via Digby, here's a story that caused me to get seriously concerned.