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The ASPCA Humane Law Enforcement (HLE) department, in New York City, announced this week that a man who allegedly threw his ex-girlfriend’s small dog to her death last year has finally been charged and arrested.
A year ago this week, Farah Benoit returned to the Brooklyn apartment she had shared with former boyfriend Sherman Haynes to collect her belongings, including her three-year-old shih tzu, Zahara.
Haynes apparently wouldn't allow Benoit into the building and began tossing her possessions out the third-floor window. He apparently grabbed Zahara and threw her out the window too. The 15-pound dog sustained multiple broken legs, collapsed lungs, and internal injuries upon hitting the sidewalk. He later died at Manhattan's Animal Medical Center.
Of course, Haynes fled. And for a year, he was able to avoid both the NYPD and HLE investigators. However, HLE used his social networking website plus information from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles to locate Haynes earlier this month.
Haynes was arraigned and charged with aggravated animal cruelty, a felony charge, as well as with reckless endangerment, reckless endangerment of property, menacing, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal mischief. He faces up to seven years in prison for the combined charges.
Sadly, this would not be the first instance of a pet being abused in a domestic violence situation. All too often, a man may threaten to injure the family pet to keep a woman from leaving an abusive situation. And women will often stay in these situations for fear the pet will really be harmed.
Many humane societies though work with battered women's shelters to help abused woman and their pets find refuge. In fact, in 12 states, laws now allow pets to be included in protective orders.
Read more about the link between domestic violence and animal abuse.
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