Thank you Zippy for thinking to post this in the other sections of POTD, I had NOT thought of it.

Yeah, it's an incredibly awful, awful story. I guess it's been on TV in NY and in one of the Long Island papers but it's not enough....these people need to hanged by their balls and skinned alive too. Event he animal control office said he'd never seen a cruelty case as bad as this one. Somewhere I have an email addrs with the family's name and who was involved, I'm tempted to go dig it out........