Sentenced: Man Charged For Allegedly Stomping on Wife's Dog After Driving Her to Work

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A Georgia man has been charged after allegedly stomping on his wife's dog, which had to be euthanized after the attack due to the extent of its injuries.

Charles Van Pelt, 26, is accused of trapping his wife's beloved dachshund, Penny, in its pen and stomping on it after driving her to work on January 5, 2022, the Ledger-Enquirer reported.

As a result of the attack, the dog suffered seizures, brain damage and serious head trauma. A veterinarian later euthanized Penny because the dog's injuries were so severe.

Even though the attack took place in early January, Van Pelt was not arrested until Saturday after a neighbor obtained surveillance video of the incident and notified authorities.

The man has been charged with aggravated animal cruelty—a felony offense that comes with a minimum penalty of a year in jail under Georgia law.

At a hearing on Monday, a judge refused to set bond for the man and he remains in Muscogee County Jail. He has pleaded not guilty.

Recorder's Court Judge Julius Hunter cited concerns for the welfare of people around Van Pelt in his decision not to grant bond.

"If something drove him to actually do this act to that dog, what's keeping him from doing this to a human being?" Hunter said, according to the Ledger-Enquirer.

Jennifer Reese, a co-worker of the dog's owner, Loren Van Pelt, told WTVM that Charles Van Pelt had voiced dislike of Penny because he believed that his wife loved the dog more than him.

"I never thought a human could be so cruel or do what he did to that poor dog," Reese said.

Van Pelt dropped his wife Loren off at work "told her to have a good day, gave her a kiss, and then left," she said. "That was at 12 o'clock. A few minutes after she got here, her neighbors called her on her cell phone telling her she needs to get home."

In the surveillance video provided by a neighbor, the 26-year-old man can be seen calmly walking up to Penny's kennel before cornering the dog and then proceeding to stomp on the animal repeatedly.

Around 15 minutes later, Loren Van Pelt and her co-workers can be seen rushing in to try to save the dog.

"He was standing over there watching Penny seize and he pointed to Penny and says 'There's your killer dog right there'," Reese said. "I automatically went to grab Penny up and get it to the vet."

"When I saw his face, he had no remorse," Reese said. "He still has no remorse for what he did."

Man Charged For Allegedly Stomping on Wife's Dog After Driving Her to Work

 

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<<<Jennifer Reese, a co-worker of the dog's owner, Loren Van Pelt, told WTVM that Charles Van Pelt had voiced dislike of Penny because he believed that his wife loved the dog more than him.

Judge Julius Hunter got it right by not granting bond. It's an even money bet that Van Pelt would have done the same to a child who was taking mommy's attention away from him.

RIP Penny.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Penny

 

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The Columbus man who calmly walked into a backyard kennel, caught, trapped and mercilessly stomped his wife’s 9-year-old Dachshund, Penny, has pleaded guilty to aggravated animal cruelty.

Charles Van Pelt, 27, faced a maximum five years in prison for the felony offense that left the dog so critically injured she was euthanized the next day. In a negotiated plea Tuesday, he was sentenced to five years in prison with three to serve and the rest on probation.

Defense attorney Anthony Johnson asked Mullins to grant his client first offender status, which would have cleared Van Pelt’s criminal record if he successfully completed his probation.

The judge refused to do that after Schwartz told him Van Pelt had been charged with sexual assault in Russell County, Alabama, describing the alleged victim as above the age of consent but developmentally challenged.

Court records showed Van Pelt was arrested for that case on July 7, 2016, but it was dismissed the next year, after Van Pelt passed a polygraph test.

asked Mullins to grant his client first offender status, which would have cleared Van Pelt’s criminal record if he successfully completed his probation.

The judge refused to do that after Schwartz told him Van Pelt had been charged with sexual assault in Russell County, Alabama, describing the alleged victim as above the age of consent but developmentally challenged.

Court records showed Van Pelt was arrested for that case on July 7, 2016, but it was dismissed the next year, after Van Pelt passed a polygraph test.

Loren Van Pelt told the L-E she caught COVID-19 after that and was bedridden for 10 days, during which she decided to review the surveillance footage to see if it confirmed her husband’s account. When she saw the recording, she made up an excuse to take her other three dogs to visit her parents, and did not return for her other possessions until her husband was arrested.

She filed for divorce while he was jailed. On Tuesday, her husband told Mullins he had signed the divorce papers, but they got lost in the mail, so the two are still married.

As part of Charles Van Pelt’s sentence, he will have to abide by these probation conditions that Schwartz said were based on his offense and past behavior:

• He is not to own a domesticated animal nor visit any place where one is present.
• He is to have no contact with Loren Van Pelt or her family.
• He is to own no firearm or ammunition.
• He is to consume no alcohol or illegal drugs, and must undergo testing.
• He is to undergo a mental health and alcohol abuse evaluation, and complete any recommended treatment.
• He must participate in an anger management and domestic violence intervention program.
• He must submit a DNA sample.
• He must be tested for sexually transmitted diseases.
• He must abide by a curfew.
• He is not to seek any early termination of his probation or its conditions.

Columbus man pleads to trapping, stomping wife’s beloved Dachshund to death in pen

Here’s what happened in court.

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Dude is ugly as sin and in both photos he looks like he is destined to do similar shit again.