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“Rescuer” Heidi Lueders acquitted of allegedly starving five pit bulls to death

February 10, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Convicted of criminal property damage,  Lueders is to be sentenced on April 6,  2022              BRIDGEPORT,  Connecticut––Former Bully Breed Rescue president Heidi Lueders,  34,  was on February 9,  2022 acquitted by Connecticut Superior Court Judge Peter McShane of all five felony cruelty counts brought against her after the skeletal remains of five pit bulls in […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, USA Tagged With: Celly Roberts, Daniel Tepfer, Herbert Van Kruiningen, Marissa Alter, Merritt Clifton, Peter McShane, Rob Serafinowicz, Tracy Dayton

Heidi Lueders, alleged rescuer who starved pit bulls, rejects plea bargain

October 11, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Lueders to be tried on five felony counts in early 2020 BRIDGEPORT,  Connecticut––Former Bully Breed Rescue president Heidi Lueders,  31,  on October 11,  2019 rejected a plea bargain to lesser charges,  and instead is to go to trial at an unspecified date in early 2020 on five felony counts of cruelty to animals for allegedly […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Benedicta “Bennie” McGrath, Frank Ionotti, Heidi Lueders, Ken Bernhard, Marissa Alter, Merritt Clifton, Peggy Anderson Lueders, Rob Serafinowicz

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