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The investigators of SPCA have significantly criticized the B.C.’s justice system after a controversial ruling on Thursday. The jury let the Whistler man, who killed 56 sled dogs after the 2010 Olympics “walked away,” get away from his crimes with a very light sentence.
This Thursday, in North Vancouver Provincial Court, 40-years-old Robert Fawcett was sentenced to three years’ probation for causing redundant pain and suffering to nine of the animals. Fawcett’s crime were revealed in January 2011, at the time he successfully applied for workers’ compensation, claiming he suffered post-traumatic stress after culling about 100 dogs over two days in a bloody slaughter that panicked the animals. Investigators dug up a total of 56 dogs from a huge grave in May 2011, as part of a massive forensic probe by the B.C. SPCA.
The General Manager of Cruelty Investigations for the SPCA, Marcie Mori-arty, mentioned in an interview on Thursday that B.C. has adequate animal-cruelty laws but the court system has failed. Moriarty alleged that Fawcett “basically walked away, and he was paid taxpayer dollars in compensation for committing the crime.”
Moriarty admits that it is rare for investigators to criticize rulings, but she claimed that SPCA played their role in this case and “the courts did not.” She stated that “we put forward strong evidence that animals suffered, and that this occurred over a few days” but “when you look at other animal-cruelty cases in Canada … I think the sentence here is not reflective of what Canadians feel.”
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