FIND FACTS-WEDNESDAY-5/16/12-58 DOGS IN ONE HOUSE
A baby boy and 58 dogs have been found abandoned in a rundown home in Springtown, Texas. The child, aged just one year old, was found in a room surrounded by animal waste.
Five people have since been arrested over the incident. The sheriff’s office reports that cops are set to charge the infant’s mother, grandmother, grandfather, and two uncles with child endangerment and/or various animal cruelty charges.
The owner of the home, one Teresa Weldon, was arrested on Friday on an outstanding warrant for allegedly writing a bad cheque. However, she could now also face possible child endangerment and animal cruelty charges.
Endangering a child is a felony under the Texas Penal Code, and punishments can range from less than two years in jail for a state jail felony to up to 20 years in prison for a second degree felony. Fines up to $10,000 can also be applied.
Authorities told local reporters that the infant and 58 dogs removed from the property were living in “alarmingly unhealthy” conditions. The sheriff’s office adds that two of the dogs were euthanized not long after the raid, and that five other puppies later died. Sad, sad, sad.
The property was reportedly strewn with filth and dog faeces, and many of the animals on the site were restricted to living in stacked crates without adequate food and water.
What do you think of this situation? Would you allow something like this to happen in your family? What should be done to these people? Please write in complete sentences and don't forget spell check.
that was some messed up stuff; who would ever do that to their child or even their animals, and what in the SAM DIGGITY DOG HECK are you doing with all them dogs... Come Dawg!
ReplyDeleteI would be pissed and i would try to get them some serious time for the crime. I would ask why they would do something like that.
ReplyDeleteI think that's both animal cruelty and it endangered the dogs that lived there.I am surprised that the dogs didn't do anything.I don't know why he would have that many dogs,they might have been stray.
ReplyDeletethey should be charged to the fullest extent of the law
ReplyDeleteI think that that is messed up and they should be punished to the maximum.
ReplyDeleteI Agree With Everyone. No Animal Should Be Mistreated.
ReplyDeleteyeah So Do I . I Argee with Everybody
ReplyDeleteI think it is very messed up.. Why would someone do that to their child espicially an one year old. They deserve everything coming their way.
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