WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa. — The Washington County controller accused of ravenous her canine to loss of life appeared in a video convention name on Tuesday the place she opted to waive her proper to a preliminary listening to.
Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh stated he wasn’t stunned that Controller April Sloane waived her rights.
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According to a prison criticism, Sloane admitted to neglecting the animal and footage of the emaciated canine have been proven to investigators.
“It’s not odd, they know what we have,” stated Washington County District Attorney, Jason Walsh. “The defendant has a right under the rules not to have a preliminary hearing and not to contest the information or evidence we have and that is what she and her attorney chose to do at this time,” Walsh stated.
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An post-mortem report discovered that the canine weighed solely 20 kilos on the time of its loss of life when it ought to have weighed at the very least 40 kilos. We have been the one station there as officers carried the canine’s physique wrapped in trash luggage out of the home.
“The evidence supports that the dog was starved to death a grueling death,” Walsh defined.
Sloane is now charged with two felonies for animal cruelty and torture however final month was silent once we requested if she had any regret for her actions.
Now some residents in Washington County are demanding that Sloane be faraway from her position, a petition was began on-line that has gathered hundreds of signatures.
Channel 11 News requested Walsh if Sloane can be eliminated, and he had this to say:
“I don’t have anything to do with that. She will be scheduled for her formal arraignment just like any other criminal case.”
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