Thursday, November 7, 2024 -A California girl who sued police for seizing her beloved pet goat, which was then slaughtered, has been awarded $300,000 in a settlement.
Jessica Long’s daughter — who was just 9 years old when her goat, Cedar,
was hauled off to the slaughter in 2022 — reached the settlement Friday, Nov.
1, with the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office and several of its
officers, Courthouse News Service reported.
The mother sued the department in 2023 a year after officers traveled about 500 miles roundtrip to seize the goat without a warrant, all in the name of a state fair’s supposed rules that had no legal binding.
Her daughter was given Cedar in April 2022 and tended to him daily for
months with plans to raise him for a livestock auction at the Shasta District
Fair as part of a youth program.
But when Cedar was handed over to the fair around July of that year, the
girl found she couldn’t part with the animal — especially since the auction he
was slotted for was selling the animals for meat.
“After the auction, [the daughter] would not leave Cedar’s side.” the
lawsuit read, according to Courthouse News.
She] loved Cedar and the thought of him going to slaughter was something
she could not bear. While sobbing in his pen beside him, [she] communicated to
her mother she didn’t want Cedar to go to slaughter.”
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