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Pig Farmer Bludgeoned pigs with iron rods - (Texas County, OK - US) Crime Date: 09/00/2000
Case Status: Alleged
Case Updates: Available - Click Here
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Abusers/Suspects:
Alejo Pe�a
Case ReportTexas County pig farm worker Alejo Pe�a pleaded no contest to three counts of felony cruelty to animals stemming from a PETA undercover investigation videotape showing Pe�a, manager of the Seaboard Farms, Inc.-owned pig farm, mercilessly bludgeoning pigs with iron gate rods in three separate incidents.
On May 14, 2001, PETA submitted the video to Texas County District Attorney Donald E. Wood, whose office filed charges against Pe�a on August 31.
Employees at Seaboard, North America�s third largest pork producer, were caught on video routinely throwing, beating, kicking, slamming against concrete floors, and bludgeoning animals with metal gate rods and hammers. Other pigs were left to die slow and agonizing deaths with severe injuries, illness, and lameness, often unable to reach food or water, without even a trace of veterinary care despite the fact that Pe�a was fully aware of their condition.
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Posted: May 24, 2003 - 3:14 PM
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Alejo Pena, age 30 chnaged his plea from not guilty and is under supervised probation until his judgment and sentencing, which was deffered until January 2004.
Pena was charged with 4 counts of animal cruelty in September 2001, for beating young pigs with a hammer and a metal gate hook at Seaboard's farm in Guymon, Oklahoma.
PETA secretly videotaped the 2000 incident and sent copies to former Texas Country Districk Attorney Donald Wood and to The Daily Oklahoman.
The 4th charg, of leaving a sick pig in a walkway without food or water for 6 days, was dropped. That incident was not videotaped, but was included in written material that was provided to authorities.
Pena had faced a maximum of 5 years in prison and fines of $500 on each count. Pena resigned from Seaboard Farms, a Shawnee Mission, Kansas based company, before the charges were filed. |
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