Now Susie’s supporters will gather Sunday to rally again — this time to advocate for tougher animal cruelty laws in North Carolina. They’re going door-to-door in Guilford County with information on the state’s laws, which allowed Susie’s abuser to get off with what they say is a light sentence.
In this article the author tells of an animal cruelty case that did not go through. The judge said that the man could not be convicted. The case was “You might remember her as the badly burned and beaten puppy found in a south Greensboro park last summer. Earlier this month, a judge sentenced Lashawn Whitehead to probation for felony animal cruelty, a judgment that followed the state’s structured sentencing laws. Whitehead, 21 , also received six to eight months in prison for setting personal property on fire.” This tells that the animal cruelty law in North Carolina is strict. The thing that set this case off was the man who burned the animal puppy was let off with only probation.
http://www.news-record.com/content/2010/03/11/article/activists_want_to_change_nc_animal_cruelty_laws
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