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SDKU-DS Proposes Bill to Give Teeth to Cruelty to Animals Legislation
Tuesday 08 December 2009 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, December 8 (TASR) - Lawmakers for the opposition party SDKU-DS defended on Monday their legislative proposal tightening penalties in the Criminal Code for animal cruelty, which should be voted on during the ongoing parliamentary session.
The measure proposes replacing the financial penalties and suspended sentences for animal cruelty with three-five-year jail terms, and for the repeat animal cruelty or when the affected animal is a protected species, five-eight years in prison. A ban on incitement to commit cruelty to animals is also proposed.
Tatiana Rosova, one of the proposers of the bill, said she submitted to Parliament petition sheets signed by 20,000 people in support of this effort earlier in the day.
Another proponent of the bill Katarina Cibulkova says the related legislation currently fails to meet its role and protect society from such crimes. "This is evident from the increasingly number of cruelty to animal cases that are more and more brutal and committed by ever younger perpetrators," she said.
Rosova argued that this bill is also about how society is ready to tolerate violence, be it on animals or people – as it is violence regardless.
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