Owners Of Dogfighting Ring Made To Pay
Another story about dogfighting, but this one with a twist.
Mitchell Beasley, and live-in girlfriend Lindy Louise Andrews, were running a dogfighting ring on their property in Waynesboro, TN. At their initial court appearance they were ordered to put up money to take care of the dogs that were confiscated.
“They have 10 days to get the bond money up,” Wayne County Sheriff Ric Wilson said.
The sheriff said bonds were also established at $25,000 cash each or $75,000 property each.
“If they do get out, they can’t go back to the property until we get the dogs properly cared for,” Wilson said.
Now that’s what I’m talking about, it’s payback time. The pair were each charged with 22 counts of aggravated animal cruelty and 22 counts of dog fighting.
The immediate need is to find a safe place for the confiscated dogs, talks with the local Humane Society will be taking place in hopes they can help.
“We hope that each one can be saved. At one time, there is no doubt they were beautiful animals,” Wilson said. “It’s just sickening to think about what has happened to them and what they have been through.”
I’ve left out some of the details because it was just to disgusting to post. I’m glad to see that the courts have taken the extra step of ordering the couple to pay for the dogs care. I applaud the judge for taking that step.
These people should be made to pay for the care for the lifetime of the dogs, their property should be taken away and sold at auction, and they deserve to rot in jail.
I will second that. They need to pay for the rest of their lives for what they have done to these dogs. They should pay for their care from now til the last one passes away. Getting more harsh with dog fighting groups maybe a way to eventually stop it all together. The laws are just too soft and their should be federal laws not just state to state laws. And they be a servere as laws to protect people. Sometimes the cruelty and abuse animals suffer, deserves a life or death sentence for the one(s) who caused the cruelty and abuse.
Job well done. They deserve to pay.
There’s not an amount high enough. I totally agree: let them rot.
We need more judges like that! That is great!
I am happy to see a judge that grasps the situation and has taken a realistic approach to provide the care that these dogs will need. They have a long road ahead of them to become adoptable (if ever) and their care will be expensive. Some of them may never be able to be placed for adoption and their ability to have a life at all has been ruined.
I get so angry when I read stories like this. They deserve every miserable thing that comes their way and more.
I think this judge is right on the ball. If enough of these judges step up like this maybe it will really slow some of this down. Hope these dogs will be given the oppertunity to live a life of peace and happiness at the expense of the criminals.
I wish they could go thru what they put those poor dog’s thru.
Just make’s me sick to read about this,and to see these poor dog’s scar’s,inside and out.
I cannot imagine,seeing this in person,and praise those who have to see these poor dog’s,up front.Break’s my Heart.
Makes me so angry,but so sad too,hard to write thru my tear’s.
Amen,to the Judge
I agree with Michelle. And I hope that “miserable thing” is a slow, painful, cancer death, or paraplegia – anything slow and very painful will suffice.
Thats good that they make the *owners* pay for the dogs care even though they can’t keep them, usually in dogfighting cases they just seize all the dogs and end up putting them down because they are labeled vicious and unadoptable.