Wayne County sheriff's deputies said they were looking for a missing adult on June 7 and found a dead horse in what appeared to be an abandoned barn on Lyons Road, near the Palmyra-Marion town border. The forensic lab at Cornell University's vet school determined that the horse died from starvation, deputies said.
Several hundred yards from the barn, deputies said they found a second dead horse in a field.
Deputies said the horse was decaying and had died several months earlier. A cause of death for the second horse could not be determined due to decomposition, said Chief Deputy Bob Hetzke.
Christina S. Mulcahy (aka Christine Mulcahy), 23, of Broadmoor Trail, who owns the property and horses, was charged with three counts of animal cruelty, a misdemeanor. She was indicted by a Wayne County Court grand jury and was arraigned in Wayne County Court on Tuesday.
A third horse that Mulcahy had boarded at a stable south of Rochester was found alive and was seized, deputies said.
The missing person who led police to search the area last week was located later on June 7, Hetzke said.
Mulcahy posted bail on Tuesday and is scheduled to return to court next week.
(Democrat and Chronicle - June 18, 2014)
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