Holy Shit… (Continuing with Yesterday’s Theme)
Friday, April 11th, 2008 by FuzzThe theme was inequality in sentencing.
Today’s story… Seth Owen, a doucebag from Cudahy, beat his 13-year-old dog to death with a baseball bat. His defense: he was drunk (as the woman who killed her son was high on meth) and he said his dog was sick.
The woman who’s son died, while she was sleeping off her meth high for 22 hours, received 10-years probation.
Seth Owen received six months in prison.
When it was Owen’s turn to speak, he told the judge Gabe had tumors and was so sick he could barely walk.
“I know I could have gone about this in a different way,” he said.
He was wearing a crisp white shirt and a tie. He wasn’t wearing a belt, and his navy pants drooped around his hips.
Why didn’t you take him to veterinarian or to the Humane Society, Sosnay asked.
“I really hadn’t thought about it,” he said. “I didn’t know what to do.
“I just feel awful about it.”
Sosnay sat up in his seat. He had been leaning forward listening to Owen with his glasses off. He put his glasses on.
“What you did is quite frankly inexcusable,” Sosnay said. “It is beyond comprehension.”
And while Sosnay accepted the plea agreement, he sentenced Owen to one year’s probation - but with the first six months to be served in the House of Correction. The beating was more than poor judgment, Sosnay said.
“It was a violent act.”
Yup… apparently a dog’s life is more valuable than that of a child.
It’s sickening.
