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Couple sentenced for atrocious acts against rabbits Marti Will A HUSBAND and wife team have been found guilty of atrocious acts against rabbits, and each fined R10 000 or six months in jail and a further 12 months imprisonment, wholly suspended for five years. Hendrik and Belinda van Wyk have also been declared unfit to own or possess any animal, ever again. The couple appeared in the Odendaalsrus Magistrate’s Court on 13 September. Both accused were charged for cruelty to animals under the Animals Protection Act after a joint investigation by the Welkom and the Virginia SPCA. The leading investigator was Catherine Ramaime of the Welkom SPCA. The sentencing came after a Plea and Sentence Agreement was reached between the SPCA, represented by the State, and the accused. Both accused pleaded guilty on four counts under the act, while Belinda pleaded guilty on a further count of willfully obstructing, hindering and resisting officers of the SPCA in their line of duty. Both accused further pleaded guilty that they had slaughtered rabbits at a residential address, which was not an abattoir, for commercial purposes. This comes after almost 1 400 rabbits were found in cages in a garage at the Van Wyk’s residential address in Odendaalsrus on 26 May 2015. The rabbits were infected with internal and external parasites and had bleeding sores under their feet from being exposed to wire hutches with no place to rest their feet. The hutches were overcrowded, with very little or no room for the rabbits to move freely. Dead
SOME of the carcasses the couple had put in a home deep freeze. offspring were left in the bare cages with their mothers. During the SPCA investigation, the accused, to evade discovery by the SPCA inspectors, transported the rabbits, including the babies and lactating mothers, in a manner that caused suffering and which resulted in broken legs and other injuries. The Van Wyks then handed these rabbits out to residents of
the nearby township community. Fortunately, many people admitted they were unable to care for the rabbits and surrendered surviving animals to the Welkom SPCA. The SPCA also had to rescue rabbits that had simply been released to fend for themselves in adverse weather conditions and without shelter. Many had already suffered cruel deaths.
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