- Massachusetts, USA -
The Suffolk County District Attorney's Office announced that animal cruelty charges have now been filed against 37-years-old NATIVIDAD PIZZARO as a result of an investigation by the Law Enforcement Division of MSPCA-Angell into the death of PIZZARO’s dog.
According to a press release by Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden, on Wednesday, June 8, 20220, PIZZARO was arraigned in the Roxbury Division of Boston Municipal Court where Judge Kenneth Fiandaca released her on her personal recognizance and ordered her not to own or work with animals.
As the press release indicated, the animal cruelty charge PIZZARO is facing stems from the February death of her dog, who suffered from frostbite and severe emaciation.
On February 2, 2022, a veterinarian at Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston alerted the Law Enforcement Division of the Massachusetts SPCA to a 6-year-old female Pitbull-type dog brought to the center.
The furbaby, named Beauty, was lifeless, and PIZZARO requested that she be cremated.
Beauty “had severe muscle wasting, was covered with mud and feces, had ulceration between her toes, and was matted with wet coat hair”, said Suffolk DA Hayden.
A necropsy was performed on Beauty and the report concluded that ”inadequate access to food (starvation) is likely” and that the “peripheral distribution of lesions (paw pad, tail, and ear tip skin), environmental conditions (death within days of severe winter weather), and emaciated body condition resulting in inadequate thermoregulation best support the clinical suspicion of frostbite.”
Judge Fiandaca ordered PIZZARO back to court on August 18, 2022, for a pretrial hearing.
Suffolk DA Hayden said: “We have laws that protect people and laws that protect animals. Just as caring for children or elders comes with responsibilities, so does caring for pets. When people can’t, or won’t, meet the responsibilities of pet ownership we get heartbreaking outcomes like this.”
To Suffolk DA Hayden’s statement, I want to add this:
The punishments and sentences handed down to those who harm or kill humans are far stricter than sentences handed down to animal abusers. I yet have to see an animal abuser that serves 25-30 years or life for killing an innocent animal!
So, just as caring for people and animals involve responsibility, let’s make sure that not caring for BOTH OF THEM leads to the same serious punishment!
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