A bitch victim of animal abuse attends trial as a witness

It's Judge Sandra Barrera, who surprised the audience by asking to move on "the wounded witness, the Milagros bitch", of pit bull race, during the hearing that took place in the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in the Atlantic, in the Canary Islands.

The environmental prosecutor explained to the badistants that obviously the witness could not speak but that they would have him make the representative of the prosecutor and a forensic doctor, who would have explained to him injuries sustained by the animal and its current state.

A spokesman for the Canary Islands Superior Court of Justice (TSJC) explained that "the decision to call a dog as a witness, which is unusual in the Spanish justice system and was not published, was approved by all parties, who considered it a good gesture to raise awareness of abuse in society animals"

Meanwhile, the accused testified by videoconference from the city of Seville, where he is serving a custodial sentence for another act, charged with the crime of theft.

"The defendant admitted that he had thrown the dog in a garbage bin in October 2012, but claimed to have done so because he thought he was dead," said one source. about the testimony of the accused.

The truck was saved from the dog because the neighbors heard it groan inside the container and opened a hole for him to pull his head.

Now, the prosecutor's office is asking for a nine months of imprisonment, while the charge filed by the Valle Colino animal shelter requires one year in prison.