New Jersey couple Keith Morgan and Shauna Ewing were sentenced to 6 months of jail for animal cruelty. They tied their sickly cocker spaniel “Samurai” in a garbage bag and left him for dead along the roadside back in March, 2013. The couple will also serve 30 days community service, pay $14,500 in fines and restitution, and are banned from owning any more pets.
Judge Robert M. LePore made an example of the two.
There has to be a deterrent to animal cruelty…Unless these individuals are imprisoned for their depraved, cruel and heinous conduct, such acts of animal cruelty will continue…
Initially, Morgan was treated as a hero for supposedly finding the abandoned dog. He pretended Samurai wasn’t his but authorities discovered he was the owner.