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RICHMOND, Indiana – Four Wayne County residents face charges of animal abuse.
Tarah L. Lowery, 39, of Cambridge City, is charged in Wayne Superior Court 3 with 12 counts of cruelty to animals, a Class A misdemeanor carrying a maximum sentence of one year in prison.
According to an affidavit, a witness told Wayne County Deputy Animal Control Officer Jessica Moore that he received a kitten from Lowery on June 6 or 7.
The kitten died on June 12. Court records show that he was “diagnosed with conjunctivitis, upper respiratory infection, fleas and intestinal parasites.”
Moore went to a property on Sarver Road in Milton, where Lowery’s mother reported that her daughter had brought about a dozen cats from her house to the mother’s barn.
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The officer reported finding adult cats with hair loss, “most likely due to a flea infestation,” and kittens with “extremely crusty eyes” and “swollen/hardened bellies, indicating intestinal parasites.”
According to the affidavit, her mother said Lowery had “had approximately 27 cats at home over the past few years that have been steadily multiplying.”
The mother also stated that “her daughter delayed taking the cats to the vet in time to have them neutered or treated, so they continued to breed and become sick,” the MP wrote.
On June 13, eleven cats were seized from the barn following the execution of an arrest warrant.
A veterinarian with the Indiana Board of Animal Health examined the cats and found that most had “conjunctivitis and signs of fleas.”
On July 2, Lowery told the deputy that she had “too many cats in the house, so she took some to her mother’s property.”
She claimed that after the move, fewer than ten cats remained in her Cambridge City home and that “they were all neutered.”
An initial hearing in Lowery’s case is scheduled for August 20.
Centerville residents charged with animal cruelty
Two Centerville residents have been charged with two counts of animal cruelty each.
Charles Orr, 19, and Phoebe Orr, 21, are accused of failing to provide adequate food to Kyson, a “yellow Labrador-type dog” who was abducted from their property on College Corner Road on June 10.
Moore wrote that the dog had “significant muscle atrophy” and that his hip bones were “protruding.”
Kyson was taken to an animal shelter and gained more than 9 pounds in about three weeks, an affidavit states.
An initial hearing in the case in Wayne Superior Court 3 is scheduled for August 21.
Centerville woman charged with animal neglect
A Centerville woman has been charged with animal cruelty for allegedly abandoning a dog in her apartment.
Sierra Mitchell, 27, is charged with a Class A misdemeanor in Wayne Superior Court 2.
According to an affidavit, the emaciated dog named Groot was rescued in November from an apartment described as “full of feces and garbage.”
A Centerville official said Groot was “one of the skinniest dogs I’ve ever seen,” with his “ribs, hips and vertebrae” visible from a distance.
He described the dog as “very friendly, but obviously lethargic.”
The officer wrote that he later determined that Mitchell was in Michigan and that the dog had apparently been left alone for an extended period of time.
The dog was taken to a veterinary clinic and later handed over to a foster family.
Mitchell’s first hearing is also scheduled for August 20.
Douglas Walker is a news reporter for The Star Press. Reach him at 765-213-5851 or [email protected].
