Man gets prison for killing puppy

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20101117/NEWS97/711179857/0#man-gets-prison-for-killing-puppy

Published Wednesday November 17, 2010

SIDNEY, Neb. (AP) — A 26-year-old Sidney man who fatally beat a 10-week-old beagle puppy has been given 18-to-36 months in prison.

Todd Hansel had pleaded no contest to a felony charge of animal cruelty. In exchange, Cheyenne County prosecutors dropped a charge of being a habitual criminal.

The Sidney Sun-Telegraph says that according to County Attorney Paul Schaub (shahb), Hansel also must pay court costs and more than $530 in restitution for a necropsy on the puppy’s body.

Hansel was arrested in March after the puppy died at a veterinary clinic. The dog belonged to Hansel and his girlfriend.

Hansel admitted to investigators that he hit the dog and threw it up some stairs.

[Brickbat]

1. Gosh, I used to live there. Hope the girlfriend dumps his ass.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Not long enough in prison for that travesty.

[joeybee12]

3. I would have given him the chair...

he's lucky, IMHO to get off so lightly.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. GOOD!!!!!!!!

which reminds me...the adulation and money that Michael Vick is getting totally makes me want to vomit.

[hlthe2b]

5. Good... I'm tired of celebrating the Michael Vicks of the world...

anyone so cruel, does not deserve any less than a very long jail sentence. (and no, Vick's was NOT long enough)

[Stuart G]

6. Do we give that kind of sentence to someone who really

beats up their child?...ok the child doesn't die..
The child beaters almost never get caught..
.Now if death happens, that is different..but..
.I don't hear many stories about chld beaters .. going to jail..do you?

I am not against sending this guy to jail, but lets try to get the child beaters too.

[yurbud]

7. almost as long as a transit cop got for shooting an unarmed black kid in Oakland!

[ehrnst]

8. Good - those types are shown to be violent to other vulnerable victims. Like kids. (nt)