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JESSICA DALE NEAL arraigned on animal abuse charges after live and dead animals found in her home

- West Virginia, USA -


On Tuesday, February 22, officials found several live and dead animals inside a home along West Pea Ridge Road in Cabell County.


Mr. John Rutherford, a humane officer with the Huntington-Cabell-Wayne Animal shelter, told WSAZ that “with help from the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (DNR), they found numerous animals both alive and dead -- ranging from household pets to venomous arachnids.”


The person taking in all of these poor animals was identified as 34-years-old JESSICA DALE NEAL (pictured below) who has a history of animal cruelty charges.


When officials went to NEAL’s home to serve a search warrant, “She didn’t want to come out at first until we went inside, but luckily the door was unlocked and actually ajar. So, we were able to go inside with the search warrant”, said Mr. Rutherford.


He also said that NEAL’s home had been searched before and that she was ordered not to have any animals.


This is how Mr. Rutherford listed the VOICELESS VICTIMS found in NEAL’s home:


6 rabbits

3 bark scorpions

3 pigs

2 deathstalker scorpions

2 kittens

5 dead box turtles

3 dead kittens “in freezer”

1 dead alligator “in freezer”

1 dead bark scorpion

1 dead cat

1 dead dog

1 dead tarantula


Mr. Rutherford said that NEAL claimed “she doesn’t know anything about any of the animals that were there.”


During the search, NEAL was arrested for pending drug charges after marijuana was found inside her home.


On Wednesday, February 23, NEAL was video arraigned from the Western Regional Jail.

She is facing 30 counts each of six different charges, including cruelty to animals.


WSAZ report that in 2019, they covered another story where NEAL was charged after exotic animals were found dead at her home on Hughes Street in Huntington’s Westmoreland community.


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Judy A Canon
Judy A Canon
Feb 25, 2022

I cannot fathom why the venomous creatures & an alligator, dead & alive, were kept as ‘pets’. I suppose they actually weren’t since they were dead, but why on earth did she keep their bodies? It appears she collected animals but didn’t bother to care for them. Hopefully a necropsy will be performed on the dog & cats. Since this horrid human was already known & forbidden to ‘own’ any animals she must not be given a third chance! RIP to all that suffered & please get better to all that survived.

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Frank Verdeaux
Frank Verdeaux
Feb 25, 2022
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She could just be a PSYCHO!!! She collects animals, kills or lets them die to keep them as dead specimens? I sure hope she wasn't allowing the venomous "nasties" bite the other poor animals. Whatever went down in that house of horrors, this freak needs a psychiatric examination pronto! She's got a Private Property sign on the door warning trespassers to stay away. Obviously has a lot to hide. Where the hell was she always getting these animals, anyway? My husband said from the animal shelter. I told him there's no way because all these places should have her on file. How to stop these things from happening? I just don't know.

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Frank Verdeaux
Frank Verdeaux
Feb 25, 2022

Why do all these white trash fat-ass chicks all look like carbon copies of each other??? Are they just some sort of breed of sub-humans??? GEEZUSSS!!! I'M SO SICK OF THIS SHIT!!! Can't say I'm too upset about the scorpions, though, but WTF do you want THOSE for?? Oh, yeah. SHE'S A DRUGGED OUT WHITE TRASH BITCH, THAT'S WHY!!! How the hell does someone like this even have a house? Can someone bring a straightjacket for her, please?!

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