Case a warning to walking-horse abusers – HSUS
The 20-year ban imposed on disgraced walking Equus caballus trainer Jackie McConnell is a pace upwards inwards the teach by against illegal Equus caballus soring, the Humane Society of the U.S. says.
Society president too principal executive Wayne Pacelle has welcomed what he says is effectively a lifetime ban on Equus caballus ownership too preparation in Tennessee for trainer Jackie McConnell.
It is, he says, a major pace upwards against abusive trainers who have got treated violations similar traffic tickets – every bit only the toll of running a lucrative business.
Pacelle, writing inwards his blog, A Humane Nation, said Circuit Judge Weber McCraw inwards Tennessee handed downward the outset e'er consummate ban on Equus caballus ownership inwards the Tennessee walking Equus caballus industry.
The instance against McConnell arose out of a seven-week hole-and-corner investigation of McConnell – the Hall of Fame trainer of Tennessee walking horses – who inwards 2011 was captured on record intentionally injuring animals nether his accuse inwards monastic enjoin to teach them to pace higher too win ribbons at Equus caballus shows.
The instance sparked a federal prosecution of McConnell too his associates, a stiffening of Tennessee’s cruelty laws, the introduction of legislation to overhaul the federal Horse Protection Act, too the dry reason cruelty instance which concluded this week.
McConnell admitted 12 charges of ill-treating horses inwards violation of Tennessee’s creature cruelty statute.
He was sentenced to i twelvemonth of menage arrest, followed yesteryear 4 years of supervised probation, a $US25,000 fine, too was banned from owning too preparation horses for twenty years – essentially a lifetime ban for the 62-year-old.
The latest penalties are on top of the $US75,000 fine too 3 years’ probation McConnell had already received inwards the federal instance against him.
Co-defendants Jeff Dockery too John Mays admitted 3 too 4 counts of creature cruelty respectively nether the dry reason law, too volition live discipline to supervised probation.
“For decades, bad actors inwards the walking Equus caballus manufacture have got totally ignored dry reason too federal prohibitions on Equus caballus soring – the savage exercise of abusing horses’ feet too legs to accomplish an unnatural too painful high pace inwards the demo ring,” Pacelle said.
“Trainers too owners have got repeatedly been cited for violations, too treated them similar traffic tickets – every bit only the toll of doing a lucrative business.
“While I wishing McConnell had been slapped alongside a long-term jail judgement – specially since he had already been cited 2 dozen times for illegal soring prior to our investigation – the ban on Equus caballus ownership for him is an incremental advance for us too our cause.
“The HSUS’ investigation too the resulting dry reason too federal prosecutions have got sent a hollo for to every Tennessee walking Equus caballus trainer who sores horses that there’s no longer a costless overstep for this abuse.
“There’s no immunity for those who unlawfully torture horses to win ribbons – whether they’re the owners or the trainers.
“Walking Equus caballus demo attendance is downward due to the scandal, too the manufacture has devolved into infighting betwixt holdouts insisting at that topographic point is no cruelty occupation inwards their ranks too those recognizing that their manufacture operates inwards an solely dissimilar social too police delineate enforcement surroundings today.”
Pacelle thanked all those involved inwards the prosecution, including Tennessee District Attorney General Michael Dunavant too Assistant District Attorney General Mark Davidson, who vigorously prosecuted this case.
“We give thank yous them on behalf of the horses rescued from McConnell’s barn too all the other horses who suffered through their fourth dimension inwards that nightmarish environment.
“We’re too grateful for the difficult move too assistance provided yesteryear the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Inspector General too APHIS Animal Care personnel. Their decisive activity inwards this instance has laid an of import illustration for police delineate enforcement inwards whatsoever expanse where soring takes place.”
Pacelle said the club was committed to ending soring too was strongly promoting legislation which would better the Horse Protection Act to halt the industry’s failed organisation of self-policing, ban the purpose of devices implicated inwards soring, strengthen penalties, too brand other reforms needed to survive halt soring.
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