Five “severely emaciated and dehydrated” horses were removed from the New Jersey spot of a 56-year-old pistillate present charged with 5 counts of fourth-degree carnal cruelty.
Dana Grykin allegedly kept the neglected animals “in a tiny unchangeable with constricted country to graze and feed” connected a Winslow Township spot she owned, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office said Thursday.
A warrant to instrumentality the horses was executed by the prosecutor’s Major Crimes Unit, the Winslow Township Police Department, Winslow Township Animal Control and the New Jersey Department of Agriculture precocious past week.
“The horses were removed from the spot and taken to a workplace wherever they volition beryllium decently cared for with capable food, h2o and country to tally and graze,” prosecutors said.
If convicted, animal cruelty charges successful New Jersey whitethorn effect successful fines, assemblage work and jailhouse time.