Guilty: Teen in viral video who threw his dog off embankment

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A judge found an 18-year-old teen guilty of animal cruelty on Tuesday after a viral video showed a dog being thrown off an embankment into a rock filled pool of water in Washington Township, N.J. Kyler Fox was fined $750, the maximum sentence for the summary offense.

According to LehighValleyLive, Humane police officer Barbara Morgan reviewed the video on March 4 and concluded the act committed by Fox was dangerous and could have resulted in serious injuries to the dog. Fox denied that his dog, a three-year-old Australian shepherd named Buddy, had been mistreated. He stated the video that went explosive and drew severe social outrage, had been shot years ago and it had been his bitter ex-girlfriend who released the video to  Reformers – Advocates for Animal Shelter Change in NJ.

The video was viewed more than 170,000 times. Rebecca Glenn-Dinwoodie, the special prosecutor appointed by the Northampton County district attorney’s office stated:

“The fact that he escaped injury was luck. He knowingly, intentionally and recklessly picked up Buddy and threw him down a four-foot embankment into two feet of water with a rocky bottom.”

Fox’s defense attorney denied there had been any abuse and contended the dog loves the water.

Video:

https://www.facebook.com/REFORMERSNJ/videos/983571658509003/

The prosecutors asked Judge Alicia Zito to order Fox to forfeit the dog to animal control, however the dog remains in the custody of the Fox family. It is unknown if Fox will appeal the guilty verdict.

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4 COMMENTS

  1. Dogs might love water, but do they “love” being thrown into it like this? The fine was a joke! If the video had been shot years before and the “girlfriend” only is bringing it to light now because she is mad at him, then shame on her for not doing something sooner.

  2. This kid and his half baked attorney are both full blown idiots !! The dog likes the water.. yeah I’m sure he does but not being thrown down a 4 ft embankment into it . Take that lying punk and throw him of the same and see how much freaking fun he thinks it really is …. my God, people are becoming total barbarians!!! Brain dead, unemotionally connected to any type of feelings of right or wrong whats cruel or not. They haven’t even got basic common sense in them let alone compassion, forethought or any other normal human type feelings usually found in normal human beings. I doubt they even see these animals as living,feeling fragile beings. We’ve unleashed a generation or two of nothing more than future serial killers and murderers ….

  3. ABUSE ! MURDER! TORTURE! of COMPANION ANIMAL’s has gone UP BY 500% in the Last 2 years !!!! WTF IS going ON in The UNITED STATES of AMERICA !!! Land of The Free and Brave!!! We have Lowered ourselves to A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY STATUS !!!! SHAME ON US!!!

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