You know from the beginning of my issue with Jennifer until today, she has her defenders. I am sure for everyone one victim like myself and Kasey there is at least one survivor. They are the lucky ones. Even a person who is good friend of mine and a HUGE advocate in the fight for animal rights and new legislation in our area, believes that Jennifer probably started out with a good mission in mind. I of course, do not feel the same.
The mission now for both of us is to make sure that she discontinues her activities with all animals. I do not think she should ever be allowed to have pets but I am sure won't be stopped. I do think that besides the greed for the money that fueled her in the end, there is some need for monitoring of her in the future. One of the conditions that I will fight for is life time probation. I know that the state has given as much to those that rob businesses, why not those that have killed leaving breathing beings for money? It will be a point I am hoping to bring to court if the victims are able to speak. While I continue to work with the victim/witness coordinator for this particular county and she should be able to get our opinions and stories to the court, it will be for the judge to listen with an objective mind.
As a disabled police officer, I know it is a gamble no matter how we go about it. Of course I will need to keep track of Jennifer and therefore her probation if we are able to get it ordered. Jennifer has family near Chicago and has said on her website that she lived in California for a while. This will mean doing everything I can to track her movement. She has listed her "farmette" for sale so besides needing the funds for her defense, she also has two or more civil suits against her, I suspect she would like to move so that she can start over.
There are still so many states without any legislation to protect our animals so I will fight to keep the changes moving to every other states as well as our own.
Thank you all so much for understanding our loss. I am going to go over to the new member area and post and will put this link and story on the rescue page as well.
For those of you that have signed already, bless you from the bottom of my heart. Kasey was a beautiful kind spirit and she is missed every day. While my Skooter is a beautiful dog...he is still my naughty little yorkie. But I couldn't love him any less.
Big hugs,
Penny
