Trial Begins for PETA Employees
January 29th, 2007 David King - King's Outdoor World
Trial Begins for PETA Employees Charged with Animal Cruelty- (01/26)
Two employees for an animal rights organization that opposes all animal use are now on trial for allegedly killing and dumping adoptable dogs and cats.
The trial for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) employees Adria Hinkle and Andrew Cook, who are each charged with 21 felony counts of animal cruelty, began Jan. 23. The two are accused of tossing garbage bags full of euthanized cats and dogs into a dumpster in Ahoskie, North Carolina on June 15, 2005.
The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) has issued reports from the trial this week. The reports detail how Ms. Tonya Northcott, an employee at the Ahoskie Animal Hospital, on June 15 sent a mother cat and her two kittens with the defendants who claimed that they would have no problem finding homes for the cats. Northcott explained that the cats had been socialized, played with, and had their shots.
Those cats ended up in a trash dumpster less than an hour later.
The CCF also reported that Bertie County Animal Control Officer Barry Anderson turned animals over to Hinkle and Cook on June 15. He described several healthy, adoptable dogs that he sent with the defendants with the understanding that they would find homes for the animals. These animals were among those found dead.
Defense lawyers tried to get Anderson to concede that he knew the animals would be euthanized after being picked up. Anderson admitted that he had seen PETA employees injecting animals, but he was told that the animals were being sedated for the ride back to Virginia.
PETA claims to be uncompromising in its stance against animal cruelty, but the organization has in fact killed more than 14,400 dogs and cats and pets since 1998.
Source: U.S. Sportsman’s Alliance
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6 Comments Add your own
1. Ron Dodson | February 1st, 2007 at 11:31 pm
String em up and teach them a lesson. This is defenitly a case of the pot calling the kettle black, a fine would be to good for theese hipacrits.
2. Samme | February 6th, 2007 at 9:45 am
I hope they give them the maximum….how come we never see this in the headlines…hmmmm, makes you wonder!
3. Matt J | March 9th, 2007 at 11:52 am
These people have a missing gene or something, and I am afraid do not have the capacity nor in any way the ability to just GET IT!
If in the defense of their “beliefs” laws are broken, prosecute the low lifes to the fullest extent, and throw away the key.
4. Karen D. McMahen-Dix | March 9th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
I have a PETA shirt. It says:
P eople for the
E ating of
T asty
A nimals
My daughter-in-law loves to shoot, cooks a great steak and wears leather. She supports my right to hunt.
My daughter-in-law is a vegetarian.
Proof you can agree to disagree.
5. Rick Turvey | March 13th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
peta had a march planned in fairbanks ak. I was the in the Alaska trappers . they had people there that thought the were there to help people take better care of stray cats etc. they numbered 15 we numbered 50. the paper told of a trappers march in the next paper. they had a lady that had a dobberman there. ears docked tail docked when we told her what that dog used to look like before docking she threw down the picket sign and took up one of ours. clearly peta was miss representing them selves.
6. Shawn from MT | March 14th, 2007 at 12:45 am
Being an avid hunter and also an animal advocate, I hope PETA gets hung on this one. They should concentrate more on the actual cruelty they themselves are guilty of in this case than giving us hunters crap. Hunting animals for food or sport to help maintain a healthy population is a far cry from direct and useless euthanization of perfectly healthy animals that could make a great pet. I know, I have six “rescue” animals. Talk about hypocrites!
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