Animal abuse is hard to stomach, but it happens all around the world. Cruelty and neglect are not uncommon, despite how people treat animals differently in different places. Many who intentionally abuse animals are men under 30.
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Animal hoarding creates victims among both humans and animals. So what do you think is the appropriate solution for a woman who is under 30 but also neglected her dog, leaving him severely malnourished? Enter Judge Michael Cicconetti, who believes in one solution for everyone – don’t commit the crime, imprison the criminal.
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Judge “Chick” is seeing 40 cases a day, but there’s something about his sentencing that makes him special. “When you talk about State prisons and Federal prisons, their problems started way back here, in municipal court, with minor offenses,” he says. “We have to stop them from going further, at the beginning stages.” The judge comes up with innovative punishments so that criminals don’t forget the crime they committed.
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That led us to Alyssa Morrow who has a 7-year-old pit bull mix. Judge Chick is an animal lover, and he was sick to his stomach when he saw the shape Morrow’s dog, Moose, was in.
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Animal Control found the dog in a house full of clutter and Morrow insists she left him in there for only one week. That being said, Judge Moss decided to let Morrow have a little taste of what Moose underwent. After describing just how Moose must have felt, the judge decided to let Morrow have a little taste of what Moose underwent. In order to complete her 10 year probation sentence for animal neglect, she was sentenced to weekly calls with a therapist that specializes in animal behavioral issues.
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He sentenced her to picking up trash at the county dump for eight hours the next day. He wanted her in the stinkiest, more sickening place the dump could provide, so she’d remember Moose’s plight.
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