{"id":570061,"date":"2026-08-21T21:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=570061"},"modified":"2026-08-22T10:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:21:30","slug":"beaten-with-a-sledgehammer-and-hanged-vitsyebsk-district-residents-sentenced-to-1-5-years-in-prison-for-abusing-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/beaten-with-a-sledgehammer-and-hanged-vitsyebsk-district-residents-sentenced-to-1-5-years-in-prison-for-abusing-dog","title":{"rendered":"Beaten With A Sledgehammer And Hanged. Vitsyebsk District Residents Sentenced To 1.5 Years In Prison For Abusing Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Vitsyebsk District Court sentenced a woman and her neighbor to 1.5 years in prison for abusing a dog.<\/p>\n<p>In April this year, a 53-year-old resident of the village of Pabiedzinshchyna asked her 67-year-old neighbor to <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/residents-of-vitsyebsk-district-beat-german-shepherd-with-sledgehammer-criminal-case-opened\">help kill her shepherd dog<\/a> because it had strangled seven chickens and a rooster.<\/p>\n<p>The woman and her neighbor, both intoxicated, beat the dog with their fists and a metal sledgehammer, then put a tow rope around its neck and hanged it in a shed. Neighbors who heard the dog barking and whimpering stopped the abuse. They took the dog down from the hook and called the police.<\/p>\n<p>At the trial, the woman fully admitted her guilt and expressed remorse. She was sentenced to 1.5 years in a general-regime penal colony under the article on cruelty to animals, the court&#8217;s press service <a href=\"https:\/\/court.gov.by\/ru\/vitebskij\/oblastnoj\/sud\/press_sluzhba\/soobscheniya\/press_sluzhbi\/4f6e7d64d65c45ee.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The second defendant was sentenced under the same article to 1.5 years in prison with a two-year suspended sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Both were ordered to undergo compulsory treatment for alcoholism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vitsyebsk District Court sentenced a woman and her neighbor to 1.5 years in prison for abusing a dog. In April this year, a 53-year-old resident of the village of Pabiedzinshchyna asked her 67-year-old neighbor to help kill her shepherd dog because it had strangled seven chickens and a rooster. The woman and her neighbor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":542150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a894dfe2633c.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Beaten With A Sledgehammer And Hanged. Vitsyebsk District Residents Sentenced To 1.5 Years In Prison For Abusing Dog"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}