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They first
tied the dog, known in the neighborhood as a sweet, sad stray, to a
tree. She waited patiently, watching them, as they loaded the arrow in a
bow and then shot her. When they walked to her, she probably thought
they would help her. Instead, they ripped the arrow out of her body and
shot her again, and again, and again. Ten times. The dog suffered
horribly until she died. When the young men were done with their thrill
kill, they dumped the body of the dog in a creek.
The tree, left, where
the dog died.
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Loney,
left, and Paulson - the cowards who admit killing the dog. One has a
criminal history of child molestation. The other, assault. Big surprise.
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News of the atrocity enraged animal lovers. Pasado’s Safe Haven
organized "peaceful" protest outside the courtroom for every hearing. It
was important to let the judge, potential jury, and media know how the
community felt. We then launched an e-mail campaign asking the
prosecuting attorney not to plea out the case - and to encourage maximum
sentencing. It worked. The case went to trial. The two young men were
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They thought they’d get
away with murder but they couldn’t have been more wrong. They were
convicted of First Degree Felony Animal Cruelty and led away in chains,
below left. They were sentenced to nine months in jail, a $2000 fine,
and mandated psychiatric treatment. None of which was enough, in our
opinion. But they’ll think twice before hurting another animal. Thanks
goes to all the people who were on our eAction Alert List and responded
to our e-mails and calls to show up at the courthouse for the hearings
and trial. And to the janitor of the elementary school, who was the
eyewitness to the crime. He came forward and testified - a gutsy thing
to do given the history of these two - assault, child molestation, and
numerous other crimes.
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Citizens Show Up - and Show Their Outrage - it works every time
When a man beat his dog to death with a golf club because it
“misbehaved”, few people in the tiny West Coast town of Port Hadlock, WA
had heard about the case. Pasado’s Safe Haven worked with area residents
to develop a massive campaign to bring about a prosecution of the coward
who did this. According to a local resident who first showed up at the
courthouse for the first hearing, “I was the only one standing out in
the rain with my husband and my sign”, recalls Cheryl H. .
But within a week’s time, our e-mail campaign to raise awareness, and
get people out (see above)- and the hard work of local animal lovers
like Cheryl, changed all that. By the next hearing, dozens showed up to
peacefully protest in front of the courthouse - everyone from
grandmothers to children voiced their outrage. The result? The case got
great media coverage and the man was prosecuted and convicted for
felony animal cruelty.
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