2023-07-16 22:56:51
The Prosecutor’s Office charged Milton Julián Bedoya Pineda with the crime of aggravated animal abuse, the man who would be responsible for sacrificing a horse in Herveo (Tolima).
Apparently, the equine’s owner took it to a Bedoya Pineda stable for him to take care of it, but on April 25, 2022, Bedoya called him to tell him that the animal had a fracture in one of the extremities and it was necessary to sacrifice it. .
The horse’s owner told him not to do it, but Bedoya Pineda ignored him and euthanized the animal anyway.
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But before applying the injection to cause death, Bedoya, in an infamous act, made a wound in the animal’s neck so that it could bleed to death.
Bedoya buried the horse at the back of the stalls.
Like Bedoya, he will also have to answer to justice for the crime of animal abuse Robinson Iván Cardozo Pacheco who in April 2022 broke the leg of a dog named Terry.
The event also occurred in Tolima, in the municipality of Prado. Apparently, Cardozo attacked the dog from a motorcycle because it barked at him when he saw it go by.
The crime of aggravated animal abuse, regulated in the penal code, establishes penalties of 12 to 24 months in jail if the aggressor caused the death of the animal, as in the case of the horse, or from 3 to 18 months if the injury does not cause damage. serious, as in the case of the dog.
Last month, a man in Medellín received the heaviest sentence for animal abuse on record in Colombia: 52 months in prison and a nearly $100 million fine.
In 2019, Gilberto Hernán Londoño, 36, assaulted a Zeus, a pitbull dog, to death in the Las Margaritas neighborhood of Medellín.
Apparently, Londoño, accompanied by someone else, hung the dog from a fence and attacked it with a machete until it was killed.
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