After being signed by Governor Beverly Perdue, a new animal cruelty law that increase punishments for killing animals will go into effect in North Carolina on later this year.
The new law changes the criminal penalties for animal cruelty charge from a misdemeanor to a class H felony, which could carry a penalty of up to ten years in jail.
“If any person shall maliciously torture, mutilate, maim, cruelly beat, disfigure, poison, or kill, or cause or procure to be tortured, mutilated, maimed, cruelly beaten, disfigured, poisoned, or killed, any animal, every such offender shall for every such offense be guilty of a Class I Class H felony,” says the recently passed bill.
Called “Susie’s Law” after Susie, a dog in North Carolina was set on fire and left to die in North Carolina, the law makes it a felony to also let an animal starve or die of thirst through neglect. For Further information, please visit your local criminal defense attorney.
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