A woman found guilty in the drownings of two family pets could spend up to ten years behind bars.

[OutHouse]

WTF ober!! 10 fricken years for this? what a total waste of tax payers money, this isnt justice at all. she did handle the situation wrong but to give this woman 10 fricken years for it is just obscene.
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GOLDEN - A woman found guilty in the drownings of two family pets could spend up to ten years behind bars.


The jury reached its verdict Thursday night in the trial of 38-year-old Delene Madison Hart.

She was convicted on two felony counts of aggravated cruelty to animals, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and negligent child abuse.

Sheriff's investigators say Hart gave her 14-year-old son and a 19-year-old family friend specific instructions to wrap two cats in separate towels, and hold them under water in a bathtub until they stopped moving.

Officials found the dead cats in the garage. Hart allegedly thought of them as nuisances because they urinated inside her home, and she couldn't afford to feed them.

She reportedly told the teens that drowning the cats would "give them back to God."

Contributing to the delinquency of a minor is a felony carrying a maximum penalty of six years in prison. The two aggravated cruelty to animals counts are felonies, each of which is punishable by a maximum of 18 months in prison. The negligent child abuse count is a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum sentence of one year in the Jefferson County Jail. No sentencing date has been set.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Citrix
WTF ober!! 10 fricken years for this? what a total waste of tax payers money, this isnt justice at all. she did handle the situation wrong but to give this woman 10 fricken years for it is just obscene.
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GOLDEN - A woman found guilty in the drownings of two family pets could spend up to ten years behind bars.


The jury reached its verdict Thursday night in the trial of 38-year-old Delene Madison Hart.

She was convicted on two felony counts of aggravated cruelty to animals, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and negligent child abuse.

Sheriff's investigators say Hart gave her 14-year-old son and a 19-year-old family friend specific instructions to wrap two cats in separate towels, and hold them under water in a bathtub until they stopped moving.

Officials found the dead cats in the garage. Hart allegedly thought of them as nuisances because they urinated inside her home, and she couldn't afford to feed them.

She reportedly told the teens that drowning the cats would "give them back to God."

Contributing to the delinquency of a minor is a felony carrying a maximum penalty of six years in prison. The two aggravated cruelty to animals counts are felonies, each of which is punishable by a maximum of 18 months in prison. The negligent child abuse count is a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum sentence of one year in the Jefferson County Jail. No sentencing date has been set.

i bet the bold part has more to do with it than anything.

 

[Ika]

I like how people who embezzle 1.5 million dollars get 2 years in jail...

 

[Homerboy]

people get less for 1st degree murder

 

[xcript]

What a fvcking sicko. :|

 

[Braznor]

Originally posted by: Citrix
WTF ober!! 10 fricken years for this? what a total waste of tax payers money, this isnt justice at all. she did handle the situation wrong but to give this woman 10 fricken years for it is just obscene.
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That dumb woman should have been locked away in a room with soft walls.

 

[CKent]

Only 10 years? Ah well, beats getting off free.

 

[Kadarin]

I think it's appropriate. Animal cruelty is wrong.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: xcript
What a fvcking sicko. :|

I agree, the Jefferson County courts are really sick for locking this woman up for 10 years.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Aflac
I like how people who embezzle 1.5 million dollars get 2 years in jail...

But they didn't kill 2 cats.

 

[lokiju]

People care more about animals than humans sometimes.

My fiancee can't watch a show on Animal Planet that shows poooor little animals being killed as part of nature but can not even bat an eye at the health channel showing someone that was a f'ed up in a car wreck.

Don't know why.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Citrix
WTF ober!! 10 fricken years for this? what a total waste of tax payers money, this isnt justice at all. she did handle the situation wrong but to give this woman 10 fricken years for it is just obscene.
:|
story

GOLDEN - A woman found guilty in the drownings of two family pets could spend up to ten years behind bars.


The jury reached its verdict Thursday night in the trial of 38-year-old Delene Madison Hart.

She was convicted on two felony counts of aggravated cruelty to animals, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and negligent child abuse.

Sheriff's investigators say Hart gave her 14-year-old son and a 19-year-old family friend specific instructions to wrap two cats in separate towels, and hold them under water in a bathtub until they stopped moving.

Officials found the dead cats in the garage. Hart allegedly thought of them as nuisances because they urinated inside her home, and she couldn't afford to feed them.

She reportedly told the teens that drowning the cats would "give them back to God."

Contributing to the delinquency of a minor is a felony carrying a maximum penalty of six years in prison. The two aggravated cruelty to animals counts are felonies, each of which is punishable by a maximum of 18 months in prison. The negligent child abuse count is a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum sentence of one year in the Jefferson County Jail. No sentencing date has been set.

Sorry 10 years sounds right and I would worry about her ever getting back into mainstream Society.

Personally I feel she should be "given back to God'.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: xcript
What a fvcking sicko. :|

I agree, the Jefferson County courts are really sick for locking this woman up for 10 years.

Exactly.
Give her a punishment for animal cruelty no question, but 10yrs is ridiculous to even consider.

 

[Crescent13]

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: xcript
What a fvcking sicko. :|

I agree, the Jefferson County courts are really sick for locking this woman up for 10 years.

I know seriously. only 10 years!??!? she deserves much more than that. I think 15 at the least. for drowning two animals like that, sheesh. 10 years is getting away easy. :|

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: lokiju
People care more about animals than humans sometimes.

Stupid, stupid argument, yet it's the one people make every time someone's convicted of cruelty to animals. I have to wonder if you're the people who pulled the legs off flies as kids, maybe killed a dog or cat and then put it in the road to make it look like an accident? Where's the comparison? Where's the person who got away with murder or got a lesser sentence for a double homicide? Where's the people arguing that animals are more important than humans? Nowhere! It's a strawman and I'm highly suspicious of your reasons for constructing it.

 

[MichaelD]

And yet none of you have said anything about , that sick f(ck of a woman, Andrea Yates, that drowned her FIVE kids.

She should die for what she did.

But you guys value some freakin' cats higher than human children, so whatever. Hope cat heaven has nice, clean litterboxes for you freaks. :roll:

 

[SlitheryDee]

She'd only be in for 3 years max if the b!tch had done her own dirty-work.


Dumb b!tch...

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
And yet none of you have said anything about , that sick f(ck of a woman, Andrea Yates, that drowned her FIVE kids.

She should die for what she did.

But you guys value some freakin' cats higher than human children, so whatever. Hope cat heaven has nice, clean litterboxes for you freaks. :roll:

Make a thread about it if you want our thoughts on it, this thread is about a separate incident. See my above post... what's your reason?

 

[Nick5324]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
And yet none of you have said anything about , that sick f(ck of a woman, Andrea Yates, that drowned her FIVE kids.

She should die for what she did.

But you guys value some freakin' cats higher than human children, so whatever. Hope cat heaven has nice, clean litterboxes for you freaks. :roll:

I'm confused. I read all the posts in this thread. Are you angry that people feel this punishment is just, but failed to mention Andrea Yates? It is possible for someone to feel that this punishment for killing the cats is correct and that Andrea Yates should die for what she did.

Maybe there is another thread about Andrea Yates, and no one who posted in this thread posted in that one. If this is the case, posting in this thread and not the Andrea Yates thread doesn't mean one "values some freakin' cats higher than human children".

I must have missed something.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

it's cause of her screwing with the kid's head...what if your mom made you drown an cat when you were a kid? the 19 year old should also get punished for going along with it and allowing the kid to.

 

[Albatross]

animals don`t have rights.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
And yet none of you have said anything about , that sick f(ck of a woman, Andrea Yates, that drowned her FIVE kids.

She should die for what she did.

But you guys value some freakin' cats higher than human children, so whatever. Hope cat heaven has nice, clean litterboxes for you freaks. :roll:

sorry, misread your post.. yeah, the lady who killed her 5 kids needs to go.. this lady w/ the cats, eh.. give her some time or something, not 10 years is insane

 

[Homerboy]

didn't people used to have their kids slaughter the pigs and lop the heads off the chickens for dinner?

 

[imported_crypt33]

she's getting exactly what she deserves, & those of you who think animal cruelty is just a minor "slap on the wrist" offense should be ashamed of yourselves...we (America) NEED to make examples of sick b*stards like this woman to stop this crap...there is NO excuse for animal cruelty, & there is no excuse for HUMAN cruelty either, so don't give me that "you care more about animals than people" crap...cruelty of ANY kind needs to be punished swiftly & harshly (how ironic....)

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: crypt33
she's getting exactly what she deserves, & those of you who think animal cruelty is just a minor "slap on the wrist" offense should be ashamed of yourselves...we (America) NEED to make examples of sick b*stards like this woman to stop this crap...there is NO excuse for animal cruelty, & there is no excuse for HUMAN cruelty either, so don't give me that "you care more about animals than people" crap...cruelty of ANY kind needs to be punished swiftly & harshly (how ironic....)

and what about people cruelty? we seem to be pretty lax on that. in fact, i often feel that any money going to PETA, SPCA, etc. should really go towards organizations that help PEOPLE.

you know there are millions of PEOPLE that starve every day and yet we care little. don't forget Darfur in Sudan, where the world's response to genocide couldn't have been better! then when some dumba$$ lady kills two cats, we get up in arms about it... yeah... about that animal cruelty, we really need to fix that first </sarcasm>