AR-News: (US OR) Salem women sentenced in neglect case

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http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2004/04/14/news/oregon/wedore04.txt 


Corvallis Gazette-Times

DALLAS — Two West Salem women received a deferred sentence Monday in Polk 
County Circuit Court by pleading guilty to three counts of animal neglect.

LeeAnn Lucas, 46, and Gail Solberg, 45, were placed on three years probation, 
and the remaining 17 counts of animal neglect against them were dismissed, 
said Tim Park, a Polk County deputy district attorney. 
Four llamas and 19 horses were taken from their farm Jan. 21. A veterinarian 
said the horses were malnourished.

All the animals were placed in foster care by the Humane Society of the 
Willamette Valley.

Charges against the two will be dismissed if they don't violate their 
probation, Park said.

The two must give up their farm animals, not own any livestock for a year and 
pay restitution of $4,600 to the Humane Society.





“I personally cannot get overly worked up about the deprivation of human 
rights in a world where non-humans have no rights at all. Until animals and nature 
have rights, none of us have any rights at all because without animals, 
ecosystems and nature's diversity, rights are meaningless. Humans are a group that 
was never very successful to begin with. Overly territorial, obsessed with 
trivialities, violent, petty, and completely lacking in empathy for other 
species. The world would be a much nicer place without us." Captain Paul Watson 
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