- New Jersey, USA -
~ UPDATE: October 16, 2021
Although 30-years-old ALLISSA DESTEFANO (pictured below) allowed three innocent dogs to starve to death, she will not spend a day in jail!
DESTEFANO was gifted with probation and community service!
Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that on October 15, the Honorable Rochelle Gizinski, J.S.C., sentenced DESTEFANO to a two-year term of probation and ordered her to perform 60 days of community service.
The Court also imposed a lifetime ban on her owning animals.
The State argued for DESTEFANO to serve 364 days in the Ocean County Jail as a condition of probation.
~ UPDATE: July 29, 2021
Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that on July 23, 30-year-old ALLISSA DESTEFANO (pictured below), of Toms River, pled guilty to animal cruelty in violation of N.J.S.A. 4:22-17c(2) before the Honorable Rochelle Gizinski, J.S.C.
DESTEFANO had been indicted by a Grand Jury sitting in Ocean County on three counts of animal cruelty on June 23.
DESTEFANO will be sentenced on September 24, and according to a news release by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, the state will seek a term of 364 days in the Ocean County Jail as a condition of probation.
DESTEFANO deserves to slowly and painfully rot in a small and dark jail cell without food or water until there is no more life in her!
~ UPDATE: June 26, 2021
Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that on June 23, 2021, 30-year-old ALLISSA DESTEFANO (pictured below), was indicted by a Grand Jury sitting in Ocean County on three counts of animal cruelty.
app.com reports that DESTEFANO’s attorney, David Schlendorf said: “We're very sad about what happened, but I'm confident that we can get this resolved with the prosecutor's office fairly expeditiously.”
~ Original story:
29-year-old ALLISSA DESTEFANO (pictured below), was arrested on Thursday, November 21, and has been charged with three counts of animal cruelty.
DESTEFANO abandoned three dogs in a vacant Lacey Township home.
The poor furbabies were found dead on November 11, after police received a complaint that dogs had possibly been abandoned.
When officials responded to the scene, they confirmed the property was empty and the carcasses of three dogs were discovered.
The accused was released the same day of her arrest on a summons pending a future court date.
Since the dogs died as a result of an animal cruelty incident, the charges filed against DESTEFANO are considered a third-degree crime, so each count could land her to up to 18 months in prison.
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