A Benton County, Arkansas court enforced laws protecting animals and families from violence last week by sentencing a man to 25 years for assaulting his girlfriend and killing her puppy. The 24-year old, Dusten Ward, pleaded guilty to three felony charges – second-degree domestic battery, aggravated assault on family or household member, and aggravated cruelty to a dog.
The crime occurred on October 24th, 2017. Brooke Teague, Ward’s girlfriend, told police they were arguing about her puppy, an 11-week old hound, when he became violent. According to a local news report by KSFM, he pushed her against a wall, choked her multiple times, and banged her head into the wall until she lost consciousness.
The abuse didn’t stop there. When Teague came to, she was outside the house. She tried to reach for her phone to call for help but Ward broke her phone with a metal pipe. He then used the pipe to beat Teague and finally her puppy.
Teague was sent to Northwest Medical Center-Springdale and treated but the puppy didn’t make it.
There’s no explanation for why Ward became so belligerent toward Teague and her puppy and there certainly isn’t any justification for such behavior. Yet all too often people use violence like this toward others and toward animals. People who beat puppies with pipes, or put them in freezers or microwaves, need to know what they are doing is wrong and has serious consequences.
Having stronger animal cruelty laws and a national database of animal cruelty is a step in the right direction. Still, there’s more work to be done both here and abroad. Countries like China, Russia, and Iran lack significant protections for animal welfare.
Animal abuse is cruel in itself, but it is also a strong predictor of how people will treat other humans. In Ward’s case, the link between animal abuse and domestic violence was all too real.
In this case, the judge took a strong stand against the violence. Ward was sentenced to 25 years, a $1,000 fine, and a 15-year suspended sentence once he is released from prison.
Yay! Finally a sentence that fits the crimes! This psychopath deserves to spend his early years locked up and should also be required to attend mandatory counseling. No appeals! Thank you, Judge and Prosecutor.
THIS IS THE KIND OF SENTENCE I’M TALKING ABOUT! 25 YEARS!
DOGS ARE BY NATURE LOVING, GENTLE, AND KIND CREATURES. THEY HAVE FEELINGS AND
EMOTIONS, AND THEY SUFFER GREATLY WHEN MISTREATED BY HUMANS. — ALL FORMS OF
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS MUST BE STOPPED, AND ALL THE PERPETRATORS OF SUCH MUST BE
BROUGHT TO FULL JUSTICE! — ALL ANIMALS WERE PLACED HERE ON EARTH BY A WISE AND
LOVING CREATOR TO BE COMPANIONS FOR HUMANS. THEY ARE TO BE CARED FOR AND
PROTECTED. ALL ANIMALS WANT TO GIVE AND RECEIVE LOVE FROM HUMANS, WHICH IS
NATURAL FOR THEM. — THE HIDEOUS, INHUMAN, STUPID, DESPICABLE, SENSELESS, CRUEL,
HEARTLESS, INSANE, SAVAGE, MANIAC MORON (DUSTEN WARD) THAT INTENTIONALLY MISTREATED, BEAT,
TORTURED, INJURED, AND SLAUGHTERED THIS INNOCENT HELPLESS DOG IS DESERVING OF THE
HARSHEST AND SEVEREST PUNISHMENT FOR HIS WICKED CRIME. HIS ACTS TOWARD THIS
INNOCENT POOR DOG ARE TOTALLY HORRIFIC, BRUTAL, CALLOUS, REVOLTING, BARBARIC, AND EVIL! THIS MAN’S CHARACTER IS EVIDENCE OF THE DEMONIC MONSTER
HE IS. — SEVERE PUNISHMENT MUST BE SERVED UPON HIM IN RETRIBUTION FOR
WHAT THIS POOR DOG SUFFERED. HIS VIOLENT AND SADISTIC NATURES CLEARLY SHOWS
THAT HE IS A DETRIMENT AND A POTENTIAL DANGER TO CIVILIZED SOCIETY! HIS
PUNISHMENT MUST BE WIDELY PUBLICIZED AS A DETERRENT TO ANY OTHERS WHO MIGHT
BE CONSIDERING DOING THE SAME. — STRICT LAWS MUST BE IMPLEMENTED AND ENFORCED
TO INSURE THAT SUCH ATROCITIES WILL NEVER OCCUR AGAIN!
CARED FOR.
Let him rot in hell after taking his heart and longues to help other people
Really? 25 years? Then he will trick and appeal, and get out in what 5 yeas? Did the judge also make a no appeal process? Will this guy be out on the streets and terrorizing someone else? He also will not be able to find a job and then this will be more crime and this is the start of a violent criminal. I am sorry I do nt agree he needs to STAY in jail his entire life for acts like these because once out he WILL do this kind of thing again.
Well Glory Glory Hallelujah! Even though the most part of the time was because of the girlfriend, but some part of it I’m sure was for the poor, little, innocent, helpless dog! Let the bastard rot in prison! That’s what he desserves!
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Horrific abuse and sentences need to be harsher.
FINALLY!! A judge who will do the right thing for animal and domestic abuse. This guy is obviously a danger to animals and humans alike.
He better serve the entire sentence, we don’t need these asshole bastards set loose in society.
Great.He deserves this.
May he be beat with a metal pipe and left to die while he’s in prison!!!!! Rot a$$hole!!
Yes , I am sorry for Teague and the puppy. Love you Pup. Hope Teague heals soon.
He needs to rot on prison!!! DON’T LET HIM OUT YOU IDIOTS!!! HOW CAN YOU BE A MAGISTRATE AND LET THIS FUCKING CRUELTY TO HUMANS AND ANIMALS GET AWAY WITH MURDER OF LIVING BEING AND BEATING HOS GF THAT TO ME IS ATTEMPTED MURDER YOU FUCKING IDIOTIC NON JUSTICE PIG JUDGES!!! I KNOW NO CONSCIENCE RIGHT WELL YOU MEED TO STEP DOWN AND LET SOMEONE TAKE CHARGE OF THESE PSYCHO FUCKING ALIENS AND MAKE THEM PAY DEARLY!!!!!!
END HIS LIFE IN PRISON! ROT IN HELL
May he rot in prison!
MAY HE BE TORTURED INSIDE OF THOSE PRISON WALLS!!!.
I’m happy with the sentence but would have preferred the death penalty.
Real men in prison hate animal abusers , i hope they tear into this pos like flies on a meat wagon ! He is one ugly demented bully isnt he ?
This POS should be put away for life. What a complete loser. He’s a tough guy when he’s holding a pipe and beating up women and puppies. I wonder how tough he’s going to be in the shower? Don’t drop the soap, asshole!!!
Reply to Robert Keenan how right you are he thinks he is a big man now to beat up a woman and kill a puppy wait until he gets behind closed bars those men on there will make him there bitch and he won’t be such a big man then and yes dont drop the soap. “OUCH”
Absolutely correct, Robert & PH. Karma can be a real drag!
what a peice of shit… Karma bnaby…RIP sweet furbaby