After two inspections this fall by the City of Newark and NJ’s Department of Health uncovered horrible and disgusting conditions and a slew of violations at the Associate Humane Societies-Newark (AHS-Newark) , the Executive Director of the facility was charged with several civil and criminal violations of New Jersey’s animal cruelty statutes.<\/p>\n
Now, before the the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NJSPCA) cynically struts and preens and tries to claim credit, this followed years of\u00a0violations and years of failed inspections<\/strong>,\u00a0 during which\u00a0 NJSPCA \u2013 the state\u2019s law enforcement agency for animal cruelty \u2013 took no action<\/strong> against AHS.<\/p>\n In fact, NJSPCA President Steve Shatkin asserted that his organization has no role with respect to shelters, during a public meeting of the NJSPCA Board:\u00a0 “The NJSPCA is not the animal shelter police.”\u00a0 SEE HIM SAYING THIS HERE at around the 4:22 mark.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n WPIX-TV 11 in New York was already covering this “House of Horrors” when the charges were finally issued, and their coverage is here.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n See other coverage HERE<\/a><\/strong> and HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n UPDATE<\/strong><\/em> – on December 11, 2017, WPIX-TV 11 did another story on the AHS-Newark “House of Horrors” and exposed the fact that the NJSPCA only charged the Executive Director with a handful of violations, when there were HUNDREDS.\u00a0 See for yourself HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After two inspections this fall by the City of Newark and NJ’s Department of Health uncovered horrible and disgusting conditions and a slew of violations at the Associate Humane Societies-Newark (AHS-Newark) , the Executive Director of the facility was charged with several civil and criminal violations of New Jersey’s animal cruelty statutes. Now, before the … <\/p>\n