Posted on 08/31/2015 4:24:29 PM PDT by digger48
INDIANAPOLIS -- An arrest warrant has been issued for a man convicted of baking his friend’s dog to death in an oven.
Joel Clark was sentenced last Tuesday to home detention, not jail or prison time, despite the outcry from the animal welfare community.
Clark failed to properly maintain his GPS monitoring equipment and is currently not being monitored, according to John Deiter, director of Marion County Community Corrections.
Clark also failed to maintain contact with Community Corrections, Deiter said.
Court staff also said Clark is not answering his phone and his whereabouts are unknown.
Criminal Court Judge William Nelson sentenced Clark to two years of home detention at Good News Ministries after Clark pleaded guilty to baking his friend’s dog to death in an oven.
Nelson said last week Clark is battling alcohol and mental health issues, while also holding down a job to support two children.
“I’m going to give this guy a chance, but if he screws up, he’s going to prison,” Nelson said last week.
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Clark was on house arrest and living with friends in May of 2014, when one of the friends discovered her dog, Zane, dead at the bottom of a trash can.
She later opened the oven door and saw a cookie sheet and pizza pan with red dog hair and what appeared to be a toenail from a small dog.
According to the probable cause, officials performed a necropsy and found Zane’s whiskers were burned, and he had burn marks on his legs and feet.
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To my mind, this sadistic crime is already a murder - the murder of an innocent dog. And of course you are correct, this man - who is walking free - is very likely to also kill humans.
I think he was referring to baking the A-hole who murdered the dog....
No, the temp is the same, but the time is only 4 hours.
sick puppy.....
Touche. Good comeback. My laugh for the evening.
We need more mental hospitals. If he can kill a dog like that...I hope he doesn’t progress.
??? The court is leaving the welfare of two kids to someone who kills dogs by roasting them to death?
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