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4 females — ages 13 to 15 — arrested after they beat, tried to rob 71-year-old woman while she was on her way to church: Cops | Blaze Media
The suspects each face charges of robbery, assault, and harassment in connection with the New Year's Day incident.
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She says she forgives them, fine. But these criminals need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent allowed by law.
CLEVELAND (WKBN) — A felony animal cruelty conviction in Ohio that was remanded back to a lower court will stand after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that stray animals are part of Ohio’s animal cruelty law.
Alonzo Kyles was convicted in 2021 in Cleveland of animal cruelty after he exposed a cat to bleach when he poured it all over his basement floor to get rid of the animal.
The conviction made its way to the Ohio Supreme Court following an appeal and a ruling by the Eight District Court that said Kyle could not be convicted of animal cruelty because he harmed a stray cat.
The case the high court decided was not if Kyle harmed the cat but a determination of Ohio law and if cruelty only applied to dogs and cats that had “received care” from someone, not strays.
In reviewing his conviction, the Eighth District Court said that the cat suffered serious harm from its exposure to the bleach and therefore the animal cruelty conviction would stand.
The opinion noted that officers found a large amount of bleach covering the basement floor, the cat was meowing in distress, and a veterinarian confirmed the cat’s exposure and injuries from the bleach.
Alonzo Kyles was convicted in 2021 in Cleveland of animal cruelty after he exposed a cat to bleach when he poured it all over his basement floor to get rid of the animal.
The conviction made its way to the Ohio Supreme Court following an appeal and a ruling by the Eight District Court that said Kyle could not be convicted of animal cruelty because he harmed a stray cat.
The case the high court decided was not if Kyle harmed the cat but a determination of Ohio law and if cruelty only applied to dogs and cats that had “received care” from someone, not strays.
In reviewing his conviction, the Eighth District Court said that the cat suffered serious harm from its exposure to the bleach and therefore the animal cruelty conviction would stand.
The opinion noted that officers found a large amount of bleach covering the basement floor, the cat was meowing in distress, and a veterinarian confirmed the cat’s exposure and injuries from the bleach.
SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y. (PIX11) – The Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is offering a $3,000 award after a dog named “Meatloaf” was found with “extensive injuries.”
The organization announced Tuesday that the reward is for any information leading to an arrest and conviction tied to the animal cruelty case.
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In November 2024, the Smithtown Animal Shelter received a male bully mix. Meatloaf, the dog, had been found wandering on Croft Lane near Creek Road in Smithtown. According to animal shelter staff, the dog had a series of injuries, including burns and infected wounds.
“If you witness any act of animal cruelty or neglect, please report it immediately to the Suffolk County SPCA,” Suffolk SPCA Chief Roy Gross said. “Together, we can ensure justice for these innocent animals.”
Aggravated cruelty to animals is a felony under New York State law.
The organization announced Tuesday that the reward is for any information leading to an arrest and conviction tied to the animal cruelty case.
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In November 2024, the Smithtown Animal Shelter received a male bully mix. Meatloaf, the dog, had been found wandering on Croft Lane near Creek Road in Smithtown. According to animal shelter staff, the dog had a series of injuries, including burns and infected wounds.
“If you witness any act of animal cruelty or neglect, please report it immediately to the Suffolk County SPCA,” Suffolk SPCA Chief Roy Gross said. “Together, we can ensure justice for these innocent animals.”
Aggravated cruelty to animals is a felony under New York State law.
Brittany Watts, an Ohio woman who was charged with abuse of a corpse after having a miscarriage, has filed a federal lawsuit accusing some of the medical professionals who treated her of conspiring with a police officer to fabricate the criminal case against her.
The lawsuit, which was filed last week and names the professionals, the officer, the hospital where Watts was treated and the city of Warren, Ohio, as defendants, is the latest development in a case that first made national headlines in late 2023 when Watts was first charged. Although a grand jury ultimately declined to move forward with the charge against Watts, the case sparked fears about how the fall of Roe v Wade and subsequent wave of abortion bans could endanger pregnant women and lead to police treating miscarriages as crimes.
Related: Ohio woman won’t be indicted for abuse of corpse after miscarriage, grand jury decides
“This case is a perfect example of the broader implications of the overruling of Roe v Wade in the Dobbs case. Brittany was not seeking an abortion,” said Julia Rickert, one of Watts’s attorneys and a partner at the civil rights law firm Loevy and Loevy. “But the repercussions of the Dobbs decision meant that her pregnancy and her choices and her medical crisis were viewed in a different way.”
On 19 September 2023, when Watts was about 21 weeks into a wanted pregnancy, she went to the hospital after she started experiencing pain and bleeding, according to the lawsuit. Although she was showing signs of potential miscarriage, the lawsuit alleges that Watts “received no meaningful treatment or guidance”. She left the hospital after several hours, only to return the following day. Although a doctor told her that her pregnancy was in effect over and that she was at risk of hemorrhaging and sepsis, the lawsuit alleges that Watts once again did not receive adequate treatment for hours and left the hospital.
“Her womb was a death trap, essentially,” Rickert said.
In the early morning of 22 September 2023, Watts miscarried into her toilet (which is common in miscarriages). According to the lawsuit, she delivered an “already-deceased, under-one-pound fetus”, which she did not see. Watts attempted to flush and clean out the toilet, then went back to the hospital as she continued to bleed.
A nurse at the hospital contacted the hospital’s risk management department and called police, according to the lawsuit. She allegedly told the police that Watts had given birth at home, did not want the baby and did not know if the baby was alive. Another nurse also wrote a medical note that falsely suggested that Watts had seen and touched the fetus, the lawsuit alleged.
Reproductive justice groups have found that, in cases where pregnant people faced criminal charges for conduct related to their pregnancies, it is medical professionals who often tip off the police. Between 2006 and 2022, one in three pregnancy-related criminal cases were instigated by a medical professional, according to an analysis by the organization Pregnancy Justice.
A police officer arrived at the hospital and, alongside one of the nurses, interrogated Watts while she lay in her hospital bed, according to the lawsuit. In police reports, the lawsuit alleged, the officer “set out to present a false version of the facts to make it look like a crime had been committed: that Ms Watts had given birth at home to a live baby and caused it to die”.
Watts was arrested in early October for felony abuse of a corpse – a charge that could have landed her behind bars for a year. In January 2024, however, the grand jury declined to indict Watts. Afterward, a local county prosecutor issued a statement declaring that his office had decided that Watts did not violate the law.
Watts is now seeking extensive damages for both her initial treatment at the hospital and her later criminalization. Her lawsuit argues that its defendants variously violated Watts’s constitutional rights as well as federal and state law, including a federal law that protects patents’ access to stabilizing care in medical emergencies.
An attorney with the Warren law department said that the department would not be able to comment on pending litigation, while the Warren police chief did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The officer named in the lawsuit declined to comment to a local Ohio news outlet.
In a statement, the hospital where Watts sought treatment, Mercy West, also declined to comment on Watts’s lawsuit, citing patient privacy.
“We remain steadfast in our mission and our commitment to the patients and communities we serve with compassion and integrity,” the statement added.
The arrest and subsequent notoriety of the case were “overwhelming” for Watts, said Rickert, who added that Watts “was not someone who had ever sought the spotlight”. The ordeal did, however, lead Watts to decide to enter nursing school.
“She feels strongly that that is not how medical care should work,” Rickert said. “She wants to be in a position to provide people with better care.”
The lawsuit, which was filed last week and names the professionals, the officer, the hospital where Watts was treated and the city of Warren, Ohio, as defendants, is the latest development in a case that first made national headlines in late 2023 when Watts was first charged. Although a grand jury ultimately declined to move forward with the charge against Watts, the case sparked fears about how the fall of Roe v Wade and subsequent wave of abortion bans could endanger pregnant women and lead to police treating miscarriages as crimes.
Related: Ohio woman won’t be indicted for abuse of corpse after miscarriage, grand jury decides
“This case is a perfect example of the broader implications of the overruling of Roe v Wade in the Dobbs case. Brittany was not seeking an abortion,” said Julia Rickert, one of Watts’s attorneys and a partner at the civil rights law firm Loevy and Loevy. “But the repercussions of the Dobbs decision meant that her pregnancy and her choices and her medical crisis were viewed in a different way.”
On 19 September 2023, when Watts was about 21 weeks into a wanted pregnancy, she went to the hospital after she started experiencing pain and bleeding, according to the lawsuit. Although she was showing signs of potential miscarriage, the lawsuit alleges that Watts “received no meaningful treatment or guidance”. She left the hospital after several hours, only to return the following day. Although a doctor told her that her pregnancy was in effect over and that she was at risk of hemorrhaging and sepsis, the lawsuit alleges that Watts once again did not receive adequate treatment for hours and left the hospital.
“Her womb was a death trap, essentially,” Rickert said.
In the early morning of 22 September 2023, Watts miscarried into her toilet (which is common in miscarriages). According to the lawsuit, she delivered an “already-deceased, under-one-pound fetus”, which she did not see. Watts attempted to flush and clean out the toilet, then went back to the hospital as she continued to bleed.
A nurse at the hospital contacted the hospital’s risk management department and called police, according to the lawsuit. She allegedly told the police that Watts had given birth at home, did not want the baby and did not know if the baby was alive. Another nurse also wrote a medical note that falsely suggested that Watts had seen and touched the fetus, the lawsuit alleged.
Reproductive justice groups have found that, in cases where pregnant people faced criminal charges for conduct related to their pregnancies, it is medical professionals who often tip off the police. Between 2006 and 2022, one in three pregnancy-related criminal cases were instigated by a medical professional, according to an analysis by the organization Pregnancy Justice.
A police officer arrived at the hospital and, alongside one of the nurses, interrogated Watts while she lay in her hospital bed, according to the lawsuit. In police reports, the lawsuit alleged, the officer “set out to present a false version of the facts to make it look like a crime had been committed: that Ms Watts had given birth at home to a live baby and caused it to die”.
Watts was arrested in early October for felony abuse of a corpse – a charge that could have landed her behind bars for a year. In January 2024, however, the grand jury declined to indict Watts. Afterward, a local county prosecutor issued a statement declaring that his office had decided that Watts did not violate the law.
Watts is now seeking extensive damages for both her initial treatment at the hospital and her later criminalization. Her lawsuit argues that its defendants variously violated Watts’s constitutional rights as well as federal and state law, including a federal law that protects patents’ access to stabilizing care in medical emergencies.
An attorney with the Warren law department said that the department would not be able to comment on pending litigation, while the Warren police chief did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The officer named in the lawsuit declined to comment to a local Ohio news outlet.
In a statement, the hospital where Watts sought treatment, Mercy West, also declined to comment on Watts’s lawsuit, citing patient privacy.
“We remain steadfast in our mission and our commitment to the patients and communities we serve with compassion and integrity,” the statement added.
The arrest and subsequent notoriety of the case were “overwhelming” for Watts, said Rickert, who added that Watts “was not someone who had ever sought the spotlight”. The ordeal did, however, lead Watts to decide to enter nursing school.
“She feels strongly that that is not how medical care should work,” Rickert said. “She wants to be in a position to provide people with better care.”
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