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Post by Maggie on Oct 1, 2013 10:41:44 GMT -6
I haven't reported on this particular case because it leaves every other animal abuse case ever behind, in terms of depraved cruelty. Frankly, I also can't write about it without weeping. Still, lots more of us need to get mad, if we are going to stop any of the cruelty towards animals and children that we read about every day.
On Saturday a vigil was held for the dog whose treatment defies any excuse or explanation. The Boston Herald reports:
Mullaney was one of about 700 animal lovers who attended a vigil for Puppy Doe at Pageant Field in Quincy yesterday calling for stronger laws against animal abuse and hoping that the person responsible for brutalizing the 1- to 2-year- old female pit bull will soon be arrested. Puppy Doe was euthanized Aug. 31 after a good Samaritan found her in a Quincy park.
“The fact of the matter is the current laws in Massachusetts are not tough enough to protect our animals,” Quincy state Rep. Bruce J. Ayers said to roaring applause as he addressed the crowd. Ayers said he is sponsoring a bill that would toughen penalties. “By raising fines and penalties, it’s my hope to show animal abusers that these crimes will not be tolerated.”
Animal abuse laws in the Bay State now draw a maximum of five years in prison and $2,500 fine.
Puppy Doe was starved, beaten, burned and stabbed in the eye. Her tongue was sliced in a serpent-like split. Several speakers addressed the crowd of people, many of whom brushed away tears. Attendees brought homemade signs and sported Puppy Doe T-shirts. Some brought their dogs, big and small.
The person who did this deed must be caught. Anyone who could torture an animal is very likely not a person who can be trusted around other animals or humans.
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Post by Maggie on Oct 29, 2013 21:27:22 GMT -6
The joy I feel in being able to announce that an arrest has been made is scarcely describable. The account I read tonight leaves no doubt that he is a low life which is pretty much inevitable in someone who could torture a dog over weeks. Yahoo reports: During a news conference on Monday, Quincy Police Chief Paul Keenan announced the arrest of Radoslaw Artur Czerkawski, 32, a Polish immigrant living in New Britain, Conn.
Czerkawski was arrested last Wednesday in New Britain on a charge of misleading a police investigation. Keenan says that Czerkawski waived rendition and was taken back to Massachusetts on Monday to be arraigned Tuesday morning. The charges include misleading a police investigation, as well as 11 counts of animal cruelty, felonies, which carry a total of five years in prison, according to Keenan.
As Pet360 reported last month, Puppy Doe was found in late August in a Quincy park, near Boston, severely emaciated and with multiple wounds including burns and cuts. Her tongue had been split in two, she had been severely beaten and her legs had also been dislocated. If the story being reported is true, he has other crimes to his credit as one would expect. It is hard to see a happy ending here but if people become less tolerant of animal abuse as a result of this story, then that poor dog will have left a legacy. |
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Post by Woodrow LI on Nov 2, 2013 8:34:38 GMT -6
There is no appropriate earthly punishment for that man. I just wish they could keep him off the street for more that 5 years. That man is just as much a danger to children as he is to puppies.
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Post by Maggie on Nov 22, 2013 11:22:19 GMT -6
Another update on the quest for justice for Puppy Doe. An undocumented immigrant from Poland faces decades behind bars for allegedly torturing and leaving for dead a tiny pit bull dubbed 'Puppy Doe' in August.
A jury yesterday indicted Radoslaw Czerkawski, 32, of 12 counts of animal abuse and one count of misleading police, with an arraignment expected to be set before December 20.
The indictments move the existing case from the Quincy District Court, where criminal complaints only carry a maximum sentence of two and half years in a county House of Correction, to the Norfolk Superior Court. It looks like the torturer will be sentenced to at least 25 years (if convicted on all counts) and possibly more. That seems easier than what Puppy Doe got. |
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