A Benton woman is facing 16 counts of aggravated cruelty to animals after a tip led Bossier Sheriff’s investigators to a horse training center behind Benton Intermediate School early Tuesday. Deputy Rod White says three horses were found dead inside a dump trailer, while 13 additional horses were found to be malnourished and lacking water. “There was evidence they hadn’t eaten in a while…you know the ribs and things were showing,” according to White.” He says the woman, 52-year-old Sandra Blackmon Driscoll, had her bond set at 100-thousand-dollars.
White says the surviving horses were living in deplorable conditions. “They were barely able to walk from the conditions they were living in,” White noting the stalls were unkept.
White says the charges against Driscoll are all felonies. Driscoll was booked into the Bossier Maximum Security Facility, while the surviving horses were transported to another local horse owner to be boarded.
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