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Are the TN laws mis-printed, incorrect or what?
Tennessee, Code Ann 39-14-202; 39-14-212
Felony Provision – Yes
Cruelty to animals is defined as:“Tortures, maims or grossly overworks an animal; Fails unreasonably to provide necessary food, water, care or shelter for an animal in the person's custody; Abandons unreasonably an animal in the person's custody; Transports or confines an animal in a cruel manner; or inflicts burns, cuts, lacerations, or other injuries or pain, by any method, including blistering compounds to the legs or hooves of horses in order to make them sore.” This is a Class A Misdemeanor punishable with a fine up to $2500 and/or 11 months, 29 days to 30 years imprisonment. A second or subsequent conviction is a Class E Felony a fine up to $3000 and/or imprisonment up to 6 years.
Aggravated cruelty to animals is defined as “with aggravated cruelty and with no justifiable purpose, such person intentionally kills or intentionally causes serious physical injury to a companion animal; or failure to provide food or water to a companion animal resulting in death or substantial risk of death.” This is a Class E Felony punishable with a fine up to $3000 and/or imprisonment up to 6 years. Additional sentencing provisions for both include psychological counseling, cost of care, forfeiture of animal, limited future animal ownership, and an award of up to $4000 in non-economic damages to a person whose companion animal is killed or sustained injury. Exemptions are made for veterinary practices, medical treatment, bona fide scientific research, usual and customary practices of agriculture or veterinary medicine, lawful fishing, hunting and trapping, dispatching of rabid or diseased animals, disposing of animals posing and clear and immediate threat to humans, dispatching wild or abandoned animals on a farm or residential property
Cruelty: Fine up to $2500, imprisonment from 11 months, 29 days to 30 years.
Second or subsequent conviction OR Aggravated Cruelty: Fine up to $3000, imprisonment up to 6 years.
Law enforcement officials and members of the Human Society of the United States, who raided Pine Bluff Kennels on June 25 , discovered 682 live dogs and 12 dead ones at the kennels, which are located at 10372 Ed Lyell Road. Investigators found 25 cats, 13 chickens, 4 other birds and 23 horses, according to court records.Investigator Barry Carroll stated that a confidential informant who worked at the kennels told police Adkisson would kill dogs that were old, sick or otherwise "not adoptable."
"Ms. Adkisson has never taken any of these animals to a veterinarian, not even for the purposes of vaccinations required by state law," Carroll wrote in the search warrant. "If any of the dogs received treatment it was given by Ms. Adkisson usually prior to being sold."
The informant told Carroll that Adkisson was trying to obtain drugs from a black market in Australia. The informant said all the animals that died were placed into a bucket inside the puppy kennel where they were left sometimes for days until Adkisson put them in bags and took them to a dump.
Count how many of the laws she broke! THIS IS NOT HER FIRST TIME TO GET CAUGHT!
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