Ohio Woman Who Beat Baby Deer to Death Gets Community Service
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A woman accused of beating a baby deer to death with a shovel after finding it in her flower garden has been sentenced to 80 hours of community service.
Seventy-six-year-old Dorothy Richardson of the Cleveland suburb of Euclid pleaded no contest Thursday to one misdemeanor count of animal abuse and was found guilty by a municipal court judge, who also ordered Richardson to pay a $500 fine.
Richardson says she became frightened when she saw the fawn in her garden on June 15 and had meant to shoo it away with the shovel.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Earlier, she pleaded not guilty to two animal abuse counts. One charge was dropped in exchange for her new, no contest plea.