There are NO excuses for this kind of violence towards an animal. Infact, his GF should be very careful...first an animal and next it could be her who is on the receiving end of his violent nature.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_c...#ixzz0tn0iQx8o
She chose her Marine boyfriend over the pooch he bloodied and blinded.
Broadway beauty Ashley Yeater, whose beau kicked her pet Yorkie, breaking its ribs, was by his side Wednesday and holding his hand.
She kissed and hugged Joseph Graves as he left Manhattan Criminal Court after serving 40 days in jail - and hopes to put the "nightmare" behind her.
"I'm relieved; we are moving on," Yeater said. "Never once have I thought that [Graves] was a bad person or that he wanted to murder my dog."
Brutalized Emmit may beg to differ.
Graves set upon the 10-pound Yorkie with his belt and a swift kick after, he claimed, the cute canine bit him, his lawyer Timothy Parlatore conceded.
Emmit suffered six broken ribs and bruised kidneys, and his left eye had to be removed because of internal bleeding. A conditional guilty plea for misdemeanor animal cruelty was entered by Graves last month in the brutal January beatdown.
Graves, who served as a Marine Corps major in Iraq, was pet-sitting for Yeater while she was touring in Florida with "A Chorus Line."Emmit suffered for two days before the barracks bully took him to a vet - and doctors there called cops.
The judge has issued a protection order that bars Graves from getting anywhere near Emmit for 18 months. Since Yeater isn't giving Graves the boot, the pooch has been shipped off to West Virginia to stay with her parents.
"I hope one day we will all be back to normal, the three of us, with little Emmit," Yeater said. "We will build towards that and move forward."
Between now and November 2011, under the terms of Graves' conditional plea deal, he must do 200 hours of community service in an animal shelter.
"I'm happy to spend some time with my girlfriend," he said, before leaving court in his orange jail-issued sneakers, which he tossed to the curb when he got out. "It will take a year to put my life back together," said Graves, a Harvard grad who lost his job with Barclays Bank over the arrest. "It's been unbelievable."
cboyle@nydailynews.com