{"id":231,"date":"2018-11-05T22:13:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T02:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/?p=231"},"modified":"2018-11-05T22:15:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T02:15:42","slug":"90-days-in-jail-for-nj-animal-killer-progress-just-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2018\/11\/05\/90-days-in-jail-for-nj-animal-killer-progress-just-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"90 Days in Jail for NJ Animal Killer. Progress, just not enough."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Joseph Russo of Stafford, NJ was sentenced last Friday to three months in jail for killing a would-be therapy dog, Diesel, a three year old Pomerian who was in training to assist a US Navy veteran.\u00a0 Russo will also be placed on probation for five years, during which he will be prohibited from owning an animal &#8212; though he should by rights be prohibited for life in my view. It&#8217;s not clear from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.app.com\/story\/news\/local\/courts\/2018\/11\/05\/man-jailed-killing-navy-veterans-dog\/1895387002\/\">this article<\/a><\/strong> exactly how Russo had abused the pup in a way that led to his death.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-232\" src=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DIESEL-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DIESEL-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DIESEL.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While a year or two in prison would have been more appropriate, it&#8217;s still a very successful prosecution\u00a0 by Ocean County Assistant Prosecutor Kimberly Carr, in accordance with &#8220;Patrick&#8217;s Law.&#8221;\u00a0The 2013 law, named after an emaciated pit bull who was thrown down a trash chute, increased penalties for abusing, neglecting and torturing animals according to the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Joseph Russo of Stafford, NJ was sentenced last Friday to three months in jail for killing a would-be therapy dog, Diesel, a three year old Pomerian who was in training to assist a US Navy veteran.\u00a0 Russo will also be placed on probation for five years, during which he will be prohibited from owning &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2018\/11\/05\/90-days-in-jail-for-nj-animal-killer-progress-just-not-enough\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;90 Days in Jail for NJ Animal Killer. Progress, just not enough.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,38,36,27,39],"tags":[4,35,3,171,169,173,170,172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}