Stepping Up

Of course people dont' want to take responsibility for their actions. Here's an article about some somewhat local people being charged for inhumane treatment. Doesn't it scream guilty if the one is a fugitive? It's not like they are getting sentenced to too much. Electronic monitoring means NOT in jail right?? These people are getting off pretty easy. Too bad the horses didn't catch such a break.

Rapid City Woman Appealing Horse Abuse Conviction

January 23, 2014, 10:53 AM 

January 2013

RAPID CITY, SD - 

A Rapid City woman convicted of abusing horses is appealing her conviction.

Forty-four-year-old Terri Harwood was sentenced to a year in jail and eight years of probation after a jury last fall convicted her and her husband, Don Harwood, on nine counts of inhumane treatment of animals.

Terri Harwood is serving her sentence on electronic monitoring. Her attorney, Connor Duffy, is challenging a January 2013 search of a barn that resulted in the seizure of 69 horses.

Don Harwood was sentenced to five years in jail but remains a fugitive.