Shayne Kolbasky, 31, gets probation after beating girlfriend's Dachshund with broomstick

INDIANA -- A Fort Wayne man who pleaded guilty to beating a small dog with a broomstick in September 2014 will serve his sentence on home detention.

Shayne J. Kolbasky, 31, was sentenced Friday to two years and 183 days in prison on a felony animal cruelty charge, with a one-year suspended sentence. He was charged in May in connection with injuries suffered by a brown wire-haired dachshund named Bosco, who belonged to Kolbasky’s girlfriend.

Investigators with Fort Wayne Animal Care & Control found a broken and dented broomstick, with the broom head broken off, in a trash can at the home. It had not been that way when Kolbasky's girlfriend Ashley Smith left for work, she told police, according to the affidavit.

Bosco was beaten so badly, he went blind in one eye.

 

“I thought long and hard about objecting to (Kolbasky) serving home detention,” Allen County Prosecutor Karen Richards told Allen Superior Court Judge Wendy Davis. “But I think the restitution is important.”

Kolbasky was also ordered to pay $1,039 in restitution to the dog’s owner.

(Journal Gazette - Nov 14, 2015)

Earlier:

• Shayne Kolbasky, 31, beat Dachshund so severely it went blind in one eye