The starved dogs, who belonged to 29-year-old Christopher Adam Preston, were found inside of an otherwise vacant home in August.
Although he was facing a combined maximum penalty of 450 days imprisonment and fines of up to $5,000, Circuit Judge Gary G. Leasure agreed to allow Christopher Preston, 29, to serve the 45 days on home confinement. He'll then be on unsupervised probation for two years.
He is not expected to lose his job as a corrections officer.
Ooh, wow, what punishment for leaving a dozen dogs to slowly starve to death. How long do you think it took for them to die, one by one? A month? Two months? Let's say a month. That's thirty days. That's 720 hours.... 43,200 minutes.
This POS Christopher Preston had more than 40,000 minutes to stop and think about those dogs. Why didn't he take them to the shelter? Why didn't he give them away? Why didn't he open the door and simply let them run away? Every single day he got up, went to work, bossed around inmates, ate food, went out with friends, went to bed... and did nothing. Then the next day he would do it again. And again. And again. While those dogs waited for him to come and save them.
Thanks Judge Leasure, you're a swell guy!
The three surviving dogs were nursed back to health and later adopted to new families.
In court, Preston admitted that he could have done better on behalf of his dogs - he stated: “I feel like there was more I could have done.”
After the home confinement has been served, Preston will remain on probation for two years.
(Examiner.com - April 3, 2015)
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