Crime & Safety
Case Continued for Redding Woman Accused of Severe Animal Abuse
Redding resident Lisa Lind-Larsen is representing herself in a trial in which she is accused of horrific animal abuse.
REDDING, CT — The case against a Redding woman charged with animal cruelty in 2014 was continued until May 11, 2016 according to The News Times.
Lisa Lind-Larsen, 76, is accused of severely neglecting two horses on her property in Redding.
A delivery driver noticed the emaciated horses on the property and notified authorities who found the two mustangs, Cheyenne and Chinook, standing in nearly a foot of manure with little food or water, according to court records.
Patch reported in 2014 that State Animal Control Officers from the Department of Agriculture seized the two severely neglected horses from the 6 Packer Brook property owned by Lisa Lind-Larsen.
The seizure was prompted by information and photographs provided to the Department of Agriculture showing that the horses were dangerously underweight and locked in unsanitary stalls for long periods of time with little food and unclean water.
Lind-Larsen had previously been investigated for possibly neglecting the horses — Chinook and Cheyenne — which she adopted in 2005 from the federal Bureau of Land Management. A 2011 complaint that the horses were underweight was resolved after the horses gained weight over the course of several months.
Chinook and Cheyenne were taken to the Department of Agriculture’s Large Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation Facility in Niantic. The agency partners with the UConn College of Agriculture Annual Spring Horse Auction to find homes for animals, once they are healthy enough to be placed in permanent homes.
The two mares are being cared for by prison inmates at the York Correctional Facility as part of the program. Inmates volunteer to receive minimal pay and work in partnership with agency personnel. Click here to read more.
Related:
- Redding Horse Owner Accused of Animal Cruelty
- CT Animal Control Seizes Two Emaciated Horses
- Redding Woman Trying to Clear Animal Cruelty
- Owner of Emaciated Horses Charged with Animal Abuse
Photo provdied by US Department of Agriculture
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