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Student sentenced for animal beating
AMANDA WOODRUFF
Issue date: 8/28/08 Section: News
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An Athens Clarke-County judge also sentenced Ashley Rose Council, a senior from Ellenwood, to 120 hours of community service and a $600 fine, according to the Athens Banner-Herald.
"I don't have any comment," Council said Wednesday in a telephone interview.
District Attorney Ken Mauldinsaid Council pled guilty to seven misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty and avoided a trial.
Her plea - an Alford plea - meant Council admitted there was "a substantial likelihood that (she) would be convicted if (she) went to trial," Mauldin said.
"It's the same as a plea of guilty. You're admitting guilt to the allegations set forth in the indictment."
But Mauldin said Council should have faced prison time.
"We felt there ought to have been confinement," Mauldin said in a telephone interview Wednesday. "Because of the facts of the case and especially because of the manner in which the puppies were left to die while in her care."
Seven puppies were found beaten to death in a box in a trash bin behind an Athens convenience store Sept. 8, 2007. Council was charged after the box, on which her home address was written, and a call to ACC Animal Control about seven puppies were linked back to her.
A grand jury concluded in October 2007 that there was enough evidence to charge Council with seven felony counts of animal cruelty, but prosecutors lessened the charges to misdemeanors.
Council withdrew from the University following her arrest, but she is now enrolled for fall semester, according to the Registrar's Office.
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SA
posted 8/28/08 @ 6:15 AM EST
This is absolutely disgusting, and the fact that she wasn't charged with felony counts blows my mind.
Hopefully someone will give her the same respect she gave those puppies. (Continued…)
Sigh
posted 8/28/08 @ 7:37 AM EST
Dear R&B,
Do you know the past tense of the word "plead?" I'm sure you'll be using it a lot so let's try to learn it now.
jay
posted 8/28/08 @ 9:19 AM EST
I hope this woman is horribly crushed from above somehow.
annon.
posted 8/28/08 @ 9:26 AM EST
what?! she beat puppies to death. that's beyond twisted.
and student is present tense - did the university address this at all??
how about this: 1 year jail time, 5 years probabtion, 10,000 fine. (Continued…)
Candace
posted 8/28/08 @ 11:28 AM EST
Perhaps the univerity should make use of a restraining order, to keep her away from our school mascot!
In all seriousness though, what compels a person to physically harm a living, breathing creature? Wouldn't it have been just as easy to set a box outside of Wal-mart with 'free puppies' on it?
ok
posted 8/28/08 @ 11:38 AM EST
Ok, hold on. She killed puppies, which is sick and twisted and grotesque. But some of you advocate her getting beaten to death? Crushed from above? She deserves a harsher sentence, that's fine. (Continued…)
Steve
posted 8/28/08 @ 12:36 PM EST
I don't have a problem with killing puppies, but not for sport. If you're going to kill the puppies, don't let the meat go to waste...EAT THE PUPPIES. (Continued…)
Just Punishments
posted 8/28/08 @ 12:52 PM EST
In today's post Michael Vick saga society it is becoming increasingly alright to mame, beat, and kill dogs. The punishment some might say should be equal to the crime and "ok" says we should increase the fine or put the violators in jail longer. (Continued…)
dot sparer
posted 8/28/08 @ 2:39 PM EST
Beating 7 puppies to death deserves jail time, compulsory psychiatric evaluation and treatment, and an even bigger fine. The community service should involve taking care of animals. (Continued…)
Whoa
posted 8/29/08 @ 1:52 AM EST
I had a really difficult time masturbating to this article.
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