Former owner of A.K. charged
The sentence, does not even come close to to what he should be charged for all 7 counts according to the Windsor Star. Our Cruelty laws are like a slap on the wrist. Sadly, it says he may not be able to have custody of an animal for up to two years. May? He should never be allowed an animal ever again is my conclusion.
Former owner of A.K. charged
Chris Thompson, Windsor Star
Published: Friday, June 08, 2007
The former owner of A.K., the puppy found with his ears cut off last month, has been charged with seven animal cruelty counts under the Criminal Code.
Rony Salman, 29, was formally served with papers Thursday morning at his Sandwich Street apartment by agents of the Windsor-Essex County Humane Society (WECHS) and the Ontario Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA), accompanied by Windsor police officers.
The charges came on the same day the OSPCA held a rally at Queen's Park to call for tougher animal cruelty laws in the province.
A.K. at the Windsor-Essex County Humane Society this week.
Ian Willms, Windsor Star
Nancy McCabe, field operations manager at the humane society, took A.K. to the rally.
"He did really well and there was quite a lot of media coverage," said McCabe.
"We brought him up Wednesday night and he slept in a bed at the Holiday Inn on Bloor Street."
About 40 animal rights supporters attended the demonstration on the lawn of the legislature, McCabe said.
McCabe said the intense investigation involved several interviews to compile a thorough case against Salman.
McCabe said the intense investigation involved several interviews to compile a thorough case against Salman.
"Our agent Shane Boutette did an outstanding job," said McCabe.
"He was assisted by a Windsor police detective."
A.K. was discovered May 11 after a neighbour spotted the six-month-old puppy on his owner's Sandwich Street balcony with his ears bleeding.
The ears had been cut down to bloody, infected stumps with a knife or handsaw, allegedly to make the dog appear more menacing.
The story made headlines across the country and turned A.K. into a poster dog for the issue of animal cruelty.
McCabe said she's not surprised at the level of public interest the case is generating across the country.
McCabe said she's not surprised at the level of public interest the case is generating across the country.
"I think people are fed up and society wants a change," McCabe said.
"It's no longer acceptable that animals be treated as property."
UNNECESSARY PAIN
Among the charges against Salman are wilfully causing unnecessary pain, suffering and injury by severing the dog's ears, wilfully causing unnecessary pain, suffering and injury by failing to provide veterinary medical attention, and wilfully neglecting or failing to provide suitable and adequate care for a dog.
Salman is to appear in Ontario court in Windsor Aug. 23.
If convicted of any of the seven charges, Salman could be sentenced to a maximum of six months in jail and/or a $2,000 fine.
The court may also prohibit convicted animal cruelty offenders from having custody of an animal for up to two years.
The OSPCA said in a news release that if the offence had occurred in any province other than Ontario, the convicted pet owner could be facing a lifetime ban on pet ownership.
McCabe said the humane society has narrowed down the number of potential adopting families for A.K. to two.
"We hope he'll be placed in a permanent home sometime next week," said McCabe.
3 comments:
You would think cases like this would spur people into pushing Bill C-373 to law. I hope that A.K. finds a better home than this scum bucket could ever give any animal. His former owner should be banned from owning another animal, just look at how he treats those who were in his care.
That's why we have to keep pushing this Private Members Bill C-373 for reading so it can become Federal law.
The Liberal don't care about pets (obviously), but the public does and the other animals too.
That's why WE have to keep on writing and writing and ask others to too.
With elections coming soon, we tell them their votes depend on the answers we ask.
I don't want a party that doesn't care about animals. If they don't care about animals, they don't care about us.
It's awful for me to say this, but since I think it, it's pretty much the same. 'The eye for an eye.' Let someone hack his ears off and see how he feels about it. grrrr...
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=d23296df-7738-464e-bb1a-bd1c28cd1d47
Man jailed for cutting off dog's ears gets taste of own medicine
Craig Pearson , Canwest News Service
Published: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
CHATHAM, Ont. - Perhaps now Rony Salman, the Windsor man who earned notoriety and jail time earlier this year for cutting off the ears of A.K. the dog, knows what it feels like.
A piece of his own ear was bitten off in a fight at Windsor Jail on Nov. 11 and he's been transferred out of town.
"He was involved in an altercation at the jail and he had part of his ear bitten off by another inmate," Windsor police inspector Cliff Lovell said Tuesday, noting that the report does not list any further detail on the injury.
"I can't give you the other inmate's name because there are no charges being laid. There's no complainant. But the jail is required to make a report."
The ear-biting incident happened on Remembrance Day, according to the jail report. Salman has since been transferred 80 kilometres east to a jail in Chatham, Ont., where he declined Tuesday to talk with a Windsor Star reporter. Salman is currently serving time for break-and-enter.
Previously, Salman was sentenced May 26 to three months after pleading guilty to animal cruelty, wilfully causing pain to an animal, causing unnecessary pain to a dog by not seeking veterinary attention and failure to provide care for - and wilful neglect of - a domestic animal.
The mixed-breed puppy was seized from Salman's apartment on May 11, 2007. The dog has since been adopted and has a new name.
Salman was also placed on probation and cannot own an animal for two years, the maximum prohibition under the law, and must pay $587.50 in restitution to the Windsor-Essex County Humane Society.
Scot Wortley, who teaches at the University of Toronto's Centre for Criminology, said while sex offenders and pedophiles are the most at risk of prison justice, other criminals could face violence, as well - especially if their case received media coverage.
"Maybe this guy's just a MIke Tyson fan," Wortley said. "But it sounds eerily similar to what was done to the dog, so you would have to explore that possibility.
"There's a code of honour among criminals and they rank people who prey on children, who prey on women, who prey on the defenseless - and maybe a dog, I don't know - as worse."
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