Hoskins is a Horse Owner Again

I can't believe our justice system today.

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East Aurora horse farm owner Beth Lynne Hoskins is facing more than 100 additional misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty, even as she is in the process of getting more of the 40 horses that were ordered returned to her custody last week.

The Erie County District Attorney's Office said today it is charging Hoskins with 114 additional counts of animal cruelty, adding to the 10 counts already in place.

Hoskins is expected to be arraigned on the additional charges later this week in Aurora Town Court.

Officials of the SPCA Serving Erie County arrived on Hoskins' horse farm March 18, and took 73 horses, 53 cats and four dogs because of the animals' living conditions. The SPCA recently released photos of the horses caked in manure and stalls full of manure.

The additional charges cover all of the horses and 51 of the cats. The only animals not covered by the animal cruelty charges are four dogs and two cats in good health that were returned to Hoskins after living conditions in her home improved.

Word of the additional charges emerged during proceedings related to the civil trial involving Hoskins. Hoskins was not in court this morning.

Hoskins, who had 17 of the seized horses returned to her East Aurora farm last week, was rounding up more of the 40 horses that State Supreme Court Justice Joseph R. Glownia ordered to be returned to her control.

A hundred and twenty-four counts of animal cruelty altogether and instead of throwing her in jail for a couple years, he gives her her horses back.

According to the video, protesters believe that the judge made this decision before the evidence had been presented to him (which is a whole other argument altogether) and thought he was helping the ASPCA out.

The ASPCA doesn't WANT to be helped out unless it's helping deliver justice to the abusers and helping the horses to have a happier life. Returning the horses to the very person that the ASPCA worked so hard to help get them away from is like rescuing a gazelle from wolves, healing it, and then throwing her back to the wolves.

It's clear from the evidence that she can't take care of those horses so really you're just adding extra work for when Hoskins goes to jail and the ASPCA has to take those horses back.