Protector of animals killed 2200 dogs and cats

Protector of animals killed 2200 dogs and cats

The president of an animal protection association is being accused of killing about 2200 animals in "authentic extermination sessions." The woman faces a four-year prison sentence after prosecutors accused her of euthanizing healthy animals in an incorrect manner, causing them to die "slowly and painfully."

The head of Parque Animal, a non-profit association for the defense of abandoned animals and for adoption located in Torremolinos, Malaga, will have killed hundreds of dogs and cats with the help of an accomplice, as La Vanguardia says.

The prosecutors also say that many people left the pets in this association to be adopted and they ended up being killed. In Malaga, photographs of animals placed in the Animal Park by people who have relied on their services and who hope to recover them have been glued to the streets.

According to the indictment, the president and the helper sacrificed several domestic animals "in a massive and unjustified fashion" between 2008 and 2010. The two held "authentic extermination sessions" of healthy animals and "without any cause justifying the death" of the animals , Besides the "lack of space in the center and the priority that the accused gave to its private purposes."

The "mass sacrifices" happened without any veterinary control, continues the investigation of the Public Ministry. It was the president who abated the animals, "inexperienced and without sedatives," and applying doses below those necessary to "economize." As a result, the animals were "subjected to a slow and painful agony, totally unjustified."

The accused were aware of the harm they were doing, according to the indictment, because the animals "writhing in pain for hours." To hide the deaths, the two would kill the animals in the morning, turn off the security cameras and increase the volume of the music, to mute the noise of the animals.