Animal Rescuer Zoe Rosenberg Sentenced To 90 Days In Jail For Saving 4 Sick Chickens

Yesterday, animal rescuer Zoe Rosenberg was sentenced to 90 days in jail for saving 4 chickens from Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse. She is eligible for different custody for the ultimate 60 days however has been ordered to report back to the Sonoma County Essential Grownup Facility on December tenth to serve the primary 30 days.

Ms. Rosenberg was convicted in October of three misdemeanors and one felony conspiracy following a six-week trial. Supporters say the 90-day jail sentence may pose a severe well being threat, given her long-standing medical situations. The 4 sick chickens she rescued had been reportedly valued at $24.

Ms. Rosenberg said at her sentencing, “I’m stuffed with regret for each animal I’ve failed to save lots of. To the little child chick who’s presently writhing in ache on the ground of a Perdue manufacturing facility farm, the younger rooster being violently slammed right into a Perdue transport crate, and the terrified hen about to enter Perdue’s scalding tank whereas absolutely aware, I’m sorry.”

In accordance with Direct Motion In all places, Ms. Rosenberg has had Sort 1 diabetes since she was eight years outdated and depends on a life-sustaining insulin pump. When she was arrested, the jail threatened to remove her pump, and she or he was bailed out to guard her life. In September, she was hospitalized with gastroparesis—{a partially} paralyzed abdomen and a complication of her diabetes. She was given a feeding tube within the hospital, which she stays on immediately, and she or he continues to take an experimental drug.

Following her conviction, prosecutors urged the decide to take Ms. Rosenberg into custody instantly, regardless of these well being dangers and her full compliance with all pre-trial situations for almost two years. Ms. Rosenberg’s lawyer condemned the sentence.

“Jailing Ms. Rosenberg for the nonviolent rescue of chickens price lower than $25 is unconscionable,” stated Chris Carraway, Employees Lawyer on the Animal Activist Authorized Protection Challenge. “Sonoma County has put Ms. Rosenberg’s life in danger all to guard a violent, multibillion greenback trade from the thought conveyed by Ms. Rosenberg’s actions: that farmed animals should reside peacefully at sanctuaries fairly than have their throats slit to fulfill our tastebuds.”

Petaluma Poultry is owned by Perdue Meals, one of many nation’s largest poultry producers. Ms. Rosenberg’s open rescue was prompted by years of investigations exposing routine violations of California’s animal cruelty legal guidelines at Petaluma Poultry manufacturing facility farms in Sonoma County, together with birds collapsed on the ground or caught on their backs and unable to entry meals or water. Each Sonoma County and town of Petaluma have repeatedly refused to prosecute animal cruelty at Petaluma Poultry, as not too long ago as two weeks in the past.

Sadly, at Ms. Rosenberg’s trial, the court docket severely restricted what the jury was capable of find out about prior findings of cruelty at Petaluma Poultry, even though the data closely influenced Ms. Rosenberg’s perception that rescue was vital.

Ms. Rosenberg was given solely sooner or later of credit score towards her sentence for the almost two years she spent on pretrial launch sporting an ankle monitor.

Ms. Rosenberg’s attorneys filed a discover of enchantment immediately in court docket. The rescued chickens, whom Ms. Rosenberg named Poppy, Ivy, Aster, and Azalea, are alive and properly at a sanctuary for rescued farmed animals.