Ohio dairy farm worker accused of beating cows with crowbars, charged with animal cruelty
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CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio dairy farm worker has been charged with 12 counts of cruelty to animals after a welfare group released a video it says shows him and others beating cows with crowbars and pitchforks.
Marysville prosecutor Tim Aslaner (AH'-slan-eer) says Billy Joe Gregg Jr. is jailed in Mechanicsburg.
The Marysville Municipal Court says the 25-year-old Delaware, Ohio, resident doesn't have a lawyer. A telephone number listed under his name is disconnected.
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The Union County sheriff's office says Gregg was fired from Conklin Dairy Farms in Plain City on Wednesday.
Conklin calls the mistreatment shown on the video "reprehensible." Chicago-based Mercy For Animals says the undercover video was shot between April 28 and Sunday.
Gregg will be arraigned Thursday. Each count of cruelty to animals has a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail and a $750 fine.
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Online:
http://www.mercyforanimals.org/