Horse neglect
Moraine, OH (US)

Incident Date: Monday, Mar 31, 1975
County: Montgomery

Disposition: Convicted

Defendant/Suspect: Harley L. Thompson

The horse dealer had been ordered out of business in 1975 years ago by a Montgomery County judge after two convictions for animal cruelty.

"We've had numerous complaints," said James Brown, then-chief animal warden for the Humane Society, in a 1975 Dayton Daily News interview. "We've found skeletons of horses on his property. We've documented cases of dead horses and starving horses."

Thompson claimed then that he was being discriminated against by the Humane Society officers.

"I'm just a poor man," Thompson had said. "They're taking my livelihood away from me."

Thompson had said he planned to appeal that conviction, but no record of an appeal could be found.

References

• Dayton Daily News - Jan 11, 2007

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