Charges filed in horse neglect case

OHIO -- Pictured, are two images which depict the condition of one horse named "Hope." The first image shows the condition of the horse on Sept. 20 when it was seized. The second image shows the animal in May, before it came under the care of the Marysville woman.

Animal cruelty charges were officially filed this week against a Marysville woman, after six horses were found in a state of starvation that one veterinarian called the “worst she had seen in 25 years.”
Lisa Gilliam, of 12701 U.S. 36, now faces six second-degree misdemeanor animal cruelty charges, filed Tuesday by Marysville Law Director Tim Aslaner in the Marysville Municipal Court.
The court refused to list her age.
The animal cruelty case was initially pursued based on a complaint received on Sept. 18 by Union County Humane Agent Steffen Baldwin, who also runs the Union County Humane Society and the
Animal Cruelty Taskforce of Ohio.
Baldwin said he investigated Gilliam’s farm that same day on U.S. 36 and discovered several horses in a “severely emaciated condition.”

(Marysville JT - Oct 31, 2013)