Target: Scott Rueter, States Attorney, Macon County, Illinois
Goal: Seek maximum punishment for couple accused of leaving dogs outside in below zero temperatures.
Five dogs were apparently found freezing to death outside a home in Decatur, Illinois. Thanks to concerned neighbors, authorities were notified of the situation.
When sheriff’s office deputies arrived on scene, they reportedly found the dogs in bad shape. According to accounts, one of the five dogs was in such bad shape that it was immediately confiscated and transported to a local vet. Unfortunately, this poor animal, an American bulldog, was suffering from extreme hypothermia and was euthanized at the University of Illinois Veterinary Clinic in Urbana.
The sheriff’s office reports that 42-year-old Mark Miller, Jr., and 39-year-old Nyssa Richards were both charged with animal cruelty and neglect, Class A misdemeanors. As is often the case with animal abuse, both Miller and Richards were simply given a citation and a notice to appear. They were not arrested or jailed.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Mr. Rueter,
It is important to forgive and to be kind, but there is no excuse and no forgiving for animal abuse.
Sheriff deputies in your jurisdiction recently cited two individuals for apparently leaving five of their dogs outside in negative 16 degree wind chills. One of the dogs suffered severe hypothermia, causing vets to euthanize the poor animal.
There is no reason five dogs should be left outside to freeze to death in these conditions. As is often the case with animal abuse, the two individuals accused of this crime are not sitting in jail, but are walking the streets free. We ask that you please prosecute this case to the fullest extent allowed under the law.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
DEATH TO THESE MURDERS!!!
Agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It doesn’t say here if the rest of the dogs were taken away from these clowns. Those two must receive punishment, heavy fines, & jail. Please get the dogs to safety.
Hopefully these two garbage people get everything they’ve got coming to them.
https://www.wcia.com/news/two-arrested-for-animal-cruelty-neglect-in-decatur/
Absolute trash..cannot stand beings like these individuals.They should be stripped and forced to stay in sub zero wind chill and temperatures as long as the poor animals had to
These two miserable people should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and never allowed near an animal ever again!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT IN THE NAME OF SAM HILL IS THE MATTER WITH SOME PEOPLE?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!
May all those who torture, abuse or neglect animals suffer a slow horrible painful death before they rot in hell!
MONSTERS!!!! PROSECUTE TO THE VERY FULLEST!!!! THEY NEED TO BE PUT TO DEATH!!!! THEY DO NOT DESERVE SPACE ON THIS PLANET! NEVER BE ALLOWED ANIMALS!!!!! NOTHING BUT GARBAGE!!!
I totallly agree!!
Shame on the justice system. These two evil monsters need to be charged with Felony animal abuse. Not a slap on the wrist. These poor dogs need to be removed immediately. Lock these heartless POS away and ban them from ever owning any animals. I wish we could leave them out in freezing temperatures till they suffer and die just like they did to these dogs. Justice is a must!!
WHAT ABOUT THE REMAINING DOGS?????? I HOPE THEY FIND FOREVER HOMES THAT LOVE AND TAKE CARE OF THEM.
The two human bastards that did this need to be left outside in below zero temps and put a camera so we can watch these fucking bastards die a slow death. That is justice, the hell with this misdemeanor shit.
Agreed!
bury these two dick heads under the artic
ANOTHER SLAP ON THE WRIST for 2 mutants, imposing unspeakable suffering on innocent animals entrusted to them!!! WHEN THE HELL DO WE CHARGE AND IMPOSE COMMENSURATE SENTENCES ON THESE MORONS? And they were even allowed to keep the 2 surviving dogs?????? BEYOND OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!! This level of disregard for life MUST NOT GO UNPUNISHED!!!
By no definition do these mutants get “justice”. JUSTICE would be putting them out in the same conditions, with no extra clothing or any way to keep themselves from freezing to death. . . EXACTLY what they imposed on these poor dogs! AND WHY THE HELL ARE THE 2 SURVIVNG DOGS STILL WITH THEM????
Enough of this garbage! Same treatment to animal
Abusers as their abuse. Throw these 2 filthy slime pieces of vermin out in -16 and tell them good luck. Tired of salvaging non worthwhile human beings. The world is littered with them.
SO MUCH FOR OUR “JUDICIAL SYSTEM”. SHAME ON THE PROSECUTORS, THE JUDGE, AND THE LEGISLATURE FOR NOT PASSING STRONGER ANIMAL PROTECTION LAWS so these mutants get sentences commensurate with their crimes, instead of the slap-on-the-wrist “sentences”.
AND THEN WHEN PRIVATE CITIZENS TAKE ACTION, THEY GET HEAVIER SENTENCES THAN THE CONSUMATE MORONS WHO CAUSED THE SUFFERING TO THE INNOCENT ANIMALS!!!! GOD BLESS THE ALF!!!! THEY HAVE THE RIGHT IDEA SINCE ‘THE SYSTEM’ IS TOTALLY IMPOTENT/LAZY/OR INDIFFERENT.
The punishment should be the same as what they thought in their spinelessly vile actions was “okay” for the dogs to endure. Bet the smartphones were safe and warm. Judges and lawyers also need to get spines and punish animal abusers severely.
The legal system never ceases to amaze me. Animals can not talk or free themselves from such horrors and yet the powers that be don’t always give these people the punishment they truly deserve. I pray the rest of the dogs are alright.
You know…the punishment has to be excessive for these Scumbags otherwise they WILL do it again. How effing heartless.
42-year-old Mark Miller, Jr., and 39-year-old Nyssa Richards. Make their names famous for bing MOFO murdering ASSHOLES!
It is the Civil Duty of Government to provide laws that save and protect those that cannot speak for themselves. Those that abuse Animals are prone to hurt and abuse others. Laws must provide and protect all life forms sufficiently and no Judicial sentence should consider them as a
Misdemeanour. These crimes are immoral and deserve jat Time. Only laws that bore provide protection to all living things.