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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Sun May 1, 2016, 09:36 PM May 2016

Man to Serve 3 Years in Prison for Burning Puppy Alive

http://fox40.com/2016/04/30/man-to-serve-3-years-in-prison-for-burning-puppy-alive/

A judge has sentenced a Northern California man to three years and eight months in state prison for burning his weeks-old Chihuahua dog alive.

The Sacramento Bee reports (http://bit.ly/1rq0YYm) a judge Friday sentenced 21-year-old Willie Bee Turner, of Oakland, for animal cruelty causing death, animal cruelty and arson for setting ablaze the puppy he named Angel Star.

Prosecutors say Turner set fire to the Chihuahua-mix puppy in January 2015 after getting angry when the dog defecated in his friend’s Sacramento apartment.

They say Turner poured beach cleaner on the 8-week-old puppy, put it into a crate and lit the animal on fire.


Three measly years?! It is cold consolation indeed that they are likely to be three loooooooong years.
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Man to Serve 3 Years in Prison for Burning Puppy Alive (Original Post) KamaAina May 2016 OP
as much as I find this appalling mattvermont May 2016 #1
Put him in a cell with an animal lover or two Omaha Steve May 2016 #2
I'm good with that. n/t NanceGreggs May 2016 #5
. Omaha Steve May 2016 #6
Odd that the news article mentioned that puppy's name... Jeffersons Ghost May 2016 #3
Sounds like someone who needs a heart transplant. Lodestar May 2016 #4
yay, another sociopath in the making. Javaman May 2016 #7

mattvermont

(646 posts)
1. as much as I find this appalling
Sun May 1, 2016, 09:43 PM
May 2016

we have an ex politician in Illinois, who for decades violated trusting boys, who will see less than 2 years.

Javaman

(62,530 posts)
7. yay, another sociopath in the making.
Mon May 2, 2016, 11:57 AM
May 2016

all the 3 years will do is allow him time to get angrier and angrier and hatch bigger plans.

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