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Cavalier mass breeders, and brokers of dogs
- Thread starter Karlin
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From http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/news/local/12224952.htm
Fort Wayne, Indiana July 26 2005
This is a well known figure offering cavaliers in this way, and the case took a long time to bring against her. The state attorney for Indiana brought a successful prosecution but she has since decamped and whereabouts are unknown.
Summary of what happened:
http://www.pet-abuse.com/cases/5117/
From http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/news/local/12224952.htm
Fort Wayne, Indiana July 26 2005
This is a well known figure offering cavaliers in this way, and the case took a long time to bring against her. The state attorney for Indiana brought a successful prosecution but she has since decamped and whereabouts are unknown.
Summary of what happened:
http://www.pet-abuse.com/cases/5117/
Please note: this person also is now selling dogs under the name Claire Simmons. She has moved to Washington State, and is now a CONVICTED FELON following a case taken against her by the US Department of Justice in 2008.
Stories carried in Boise, Idaho publications (print and online) and reported by Idaho's KBCI TV, on July 26 2005, noted that police removed 64 small dogs (cavaliers) from the house of a woman named Elizabeth (Jolene) Simmons. Police stated that two small children were exposed to unsanitary conditions due to the dogs being kept in the home. She was initially jailed.
In reports, she stated the dogs were well cared for. The maximum number of dogs allowed in a residence in that city is three, according to the stories.
The dogs were eventually returned to Simmons who then said she would house them in a building outside of town but had refused to disclose to the police where the building was, according to the Idaho Statesman.
Court records show that Simmons had also been sued in small claims court for $1200 for failing to supply a puppy a couple ordered over the internet. They were told the puppy had died, then that a second puppy had died, and say they never received a third puppy when they asked for it to be vet-checked, according to statements by the couple who brought the suit.
According to petabuse.com, as of late 2005, “Simmons still faces misdemeanor charges of animal cruelty, failure to license animals and obstructing police officers, as well as an old warrant for making harassing phone calls. The 5 year old girl was returned to her parents.”
I have been asked to remove this entire post by Ms Simmons. I would like to point out: Linking is an established right under US case law, which has shown it is not a violation of copyright. It is also neither defamatory nor libellous to note facts that are a matter of public record, as all of the above information is and remains. The same is true under UK and Irish law.
According to Ms Simmons, who has provided a photocopy of an attorney letter, two of the charges above were dismissed a year later, in July.
She also supplied two letters on KBCI letterhead stationery addressed to me, the first stating that I must remove links to their stories; then a follow-up, stating that a lawsuit would be filed immediately against me. I have directly contacted the station, and the person who supposedly wrote and signed these letters. He says he knew nothing about them -- though he was interested to learn of their existence. The station now has copies of all material sent to me by Ms Simmons.
Further information:
http://www.pet-abuse.com/cases/5117/#UPDATES
(including content of newspaper articles which are no longer available online but can, of course, be searched from print copies and are a matter of public record -- July 28 2005; KBCI carried reports on July 23, 24, 25 and 26 2005)
Google also caches some of the relevant pages.
Ms Simmons continues to send regular emails warning of lawsuits and using a letter purportedly written by the station director at KBCI also personally threatening me with a lawsuit as the basis of her claims. However I have been directly in touch with the director who was interested to learn of this; he states unequivocally that he never wrote such letters and was unaware that Ms Simmons was sending same to various websites reporting on her case. The station now has copies of all the emails and the letters and I have informed other websites receiving the same letters of his statement.
Stories carried in Boise, Idaho publications (print and online) and reported by Idaho's KBCI TV, on July 26 2005, noted that police removed 64 small dogs (cavaliers) from the house of a woman named Elizabeth (Jolene) Simmons. Police stated that two small children were exposed to unsanitary conditions due to the dogs being kept in the home. She was initially jailed.
In reports, she stated the dogs were well cared for. The maximum number of dogs allowed in a residence in that city is three, according to the stories.
The dogs were eventually returned to Simmons who then said she would house them in a building outside of town but had refused to disclose to the police where the building was, according to the Idaho Statesman.
Court records show that Simmons had also been sued in small claims court for $1200 for failing to supply a puppy a couple ordered over the internet. They were told the puppy had died, then that a second puppy had died, and say they never received a third puppy when they asked for it to be vet-checked, according to statements by the couple who brought the suit.
According to petabuse.com, as of late 2005, “Simmons still faces misdemeanor charges of animal cruelty, failure to license animals and obstructing police officers, as well as an old warrant for making harassing phone calls. The 5 year old girl was returned to her parents.”
I have been asked to remove this entire post by Ms Simmons. I would like to point out: Linking is an established right under US case law, which has shown it is not a violation of copyright. It is also neither defamatory nor libellous to note facts that are a matter of public record, as all of the above information is and remains. The same is true under UK and Irish law.
According to Ms Simmons, who has provided a photocopy of an attorney letter, two of the charges above were dismissed a year later, in July.
She also supplied two letters on KBCI letterhead stationery addressed to me, the first stating that I must remove links to their stories; then a follow-up, stating that a lawsuit would be filed immediately against me. I have directly contacted the station, and the person who supposedly wrote and signed these letters. He says he knew nothing about them -- though he was interested to learn of their existence. The station now has copies of all material sent to me by Ms Simmons.
Further information:
http://www.pet-abuse.com/cases/5117/#UPDATES
(including content of newspaper articles which are no longer available online but can, of course, be searched from print copies and are a matter of public record -- July 28 2005; KBCI carried reports on July 23, 24, 25 and 26 2005)
Google also caches some of the relevant pages.
Ms Simmons continues to send regular emails warning of lawsuits and using a letter purportedly written by the station director at KBCI also personally threatening me with a lawsuit as the basis of her claims. However I have been directly in touch with the director who was interested to learn of this; he states unequivocally that he never wrote such letters and was unaware that Ms Simmons was sending same to various websites reporting on her case. The station now has copies of all the emails and the letters and I have informed other websites receiving the same letters of his statement.
Scottish cavaliers: from Sunday Daily Mail:
http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/sc.../puppy-farm-woman-in-the-dock-78057-20344511/
http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/sc.../puppy-farm-woman-in-the-dock-78057-20344511/