OWENSBORO, KY -- Charges have been filed against a former Kentucky sheriff's deputy and a state highway worker in the beating of dog that had been struck by a car on the side of a highway.
Muhlenberg County Attorney Darris Russell filed the misdemeanor charges of second-degree animal cruelty on Thursday against former Ohio County sheriff's deputy Randy Taylor and former state highway worker Adam Decker. Ohio County Sheriff David Thompson told the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer that both were served with summons on Friday.
Road workers on Kentucky Highway 69 on June 28 said they found a dog that had been hit and called for a deputy. The workers alleged that Taylor hit the dog in the head with a garden hoe. The workers buried the dog, thinking it was dead, but another road worker later found the dog alive after it struggled out of the grave.
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