LOCK SANCTUARY – A Jersey Shore man on Tuesday was sentenced to the optimum of 2½ to 14 years in state jail in an animal cruelty case.
James Standridge, 34, had actually pleaded guilty in May to 2 counts of worsened cruelty to animals. He argued for a county jail sentence.
Standridge confessed two times shooting his then 18-month-old female pit bull terrier, which volunteers would later on call Lucky, after connecting her to a tree in a remote woody location along Pine Mountain Road in Wayne Twp.
A passerby found the dog on Jan. 27 and informed the Clinton County SPCA that selected the dog up.
Clinton County Judge Michael F. Salisbury said he had a factor for providing Standridge the optimal sentence. “You didn’t show Lucky any mercy, likewise this court will not show you the mercy you now request,” he informed him.
Volunteers called her Lucky since she endured her injuries and 6 days of freezing temperature levels prior to being found. She was near death, said SPCA representative supervisor Cristy Lehman.
Attempts to save her left leg through surgical treatments were not successful and it needed to be cut off, she said. The dog likewise lost numerous toes from frostbite.
A 9mm bullet stays ingrained in Lucky’s neck since it would be too dangerous to attempt to eliminate it, Lehman said.
Standridge’s conduct was “reprehensible and entirely inexcusable,” District Attorney David Strouse said at the sentencing hearing.
He summed up declarations from vets and the SPCA about the months of suffering the dog sustained.
Standridge declared when he pleaded guilty he shot the pit bull he called Luna since it had actually assaulted his older dog in front of his kids. He believed he had actually killed her, he said.
He declared he attempted to distribute Luna however nobody desired her and the SPCA did not have room to take her. It was identified he never ever reached the Clinton County SPCA or the one in Williamsport, Lehman said.
Salisbury implicated Standridge of making a mindful choice to eliminate his dog and not genuinely try to take any other strategy.
The SPCA’s declaration laying out the dog’s discomfort and suffering was among the most hard things he has actually needed to check out and it brought him to tears, he said.
He informed Standridge in his ten years on the bench this was the very first time he had actually sentenced somebody in the annoying variety of the standards.
Salisbury purchased Standridge to pay restitution of $4,819 to cover the dog’s medical expenses.
The offender questioned the requirement for restitution since the SPCA raised more than $10,000 after Lucky’s predicament ended up being openly understood.
Lucky has actually been embraced and is succeeding, Lehman said.
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