Grand Jury indicts McConnell over soring allegations
A Fayette County Grand Jury has indicted Equus caballus abuser Jackie McConnell together with 2 co-defendants on 38 counts of brute cruelty for illegally soring together with ill-treating horses, courtroom documents show.
The charges relate to the findings of an surreptitious investigation conduted past times the Humane Society of the United States of America inwards 2011.
A well-known walking Equus caballus trainer, McConnell is forthwith notorious for Equus caballus abuse next a federal felony conviction for conspiracy to violate the Horse Protection Act.
McConnell has been indicted on 22 counts of brute cruelty inwards Fayette County, for charges stemming from footage captured past times an HSUS investigator of McConnell together with his associates beating horses together with using painful chemicals on their legs – an illegal do known every bit soring.
Soring is the method trainers utilization to forcefulness Tennessee walking horses to perform the exaggerated, artificial gait known every bit the Big Lick.
McConnell is already serving 3 years of probation together with has been fined $US75,000 for his federal felony conviction.
“We commend District Attorney General Mike Dunavant together with Assistant District Attorney General Mark Davidson for filing criminal charges against McConnell together with his co-defendants — the kickoff representative of its form inwards Tennessee,” the society’s manager of equine protection, Keith Dane, said.
“Unfortunately, the owners who placed their horses inwards McConnell’s preparation stables bring non expressed the slightest regret or remorse for the torture these animals endured, together with yet postulate to hold upwards held accountable.”
McConnell’s co-defendants inwards the federal case, John Mays together with Jeff Dockery, were likewise indicted. Mays was charged amongst xiii counts together with Dockery amongst 3 counts. Both men pleaded guilty to lesser charges inwards federal courtroom for their operate inwards the conspiracy to violate the Horse Protection Act.
Since 2011, the humane lodge has assisted the United States of America Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee, the United States of America Department of Agriculture’s Office of the Inspector General, together with the Tennessee 25th Judicial District Attorney General’s Office inwards prosecuting the offenders together with assisting inwards the rescue of horses from McConnell’s preparation operation.
In March concluding year, 8 horses were seized from McConnell’s stable next the execution of a search together with seizure warrant.
At the state’s request, together with at bully expense, the HSUS has been providing the horses amongst intensive rehabilitative attention for the past times yr together with volition proceed to produce so.
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