{"id":96,"date":"2017-07-13T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T15:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/?p=96"},"modified":"2017-07-13T11:53:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T15:53:50","slug":"finally-animal-cruelty-is-rewarded-with-jail-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2017\/07\/13\/finally-animal-cruelty-is-rewarded-with-jail-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Animal Cruelty is Rewarded with Jail Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Staten Island man was sentenced to 300 days in jail Friday on animal cruelty charges <a href=\"http:\/\/www.app.com\/story\/news\/local\/courts\/2017\/07\/07\/staten-island-man-kills-girlfriends-dog\/449988001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for inflicting serious injuries on a dog that resulted in the animal&#8217;s death<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have statistics, but it is common knowledge that animal abuse, even the killing of innocent animals, rarely results in jail or prison time.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a problem in our society &#8211; many of us truly care about animal welfare, but not enough of us are putting pressure on legislatures and law enforcement agencies to do what they should: enact strong laws and enforce them.<\/p>\n<p>Information about the conviction and sentencing of Nicholas Piccolino can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/ocean\/index.ssf\/2017\/07\/man_gets_jail_time_for_brutally_killing_ex-girlfri.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Staten Island man was sentenced to 300 days in jail Friday on animal cruelty charges for inflicting serious injuries on a dog that resulted in the animal&#8217;s death. I don&#8217;t have statistics, but it is common knowledge that animal abuse, even the killing of innocent animals, rarely results in jail or prison time.\u00a0 It&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2017\/07\/13\/finally-animal-cruelty-is-rewarded-with-jail-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finally, Animal Cruelty is Rewarded with Jail Time&#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":[21,36,27,39],"tags":[4,41,15,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}