Woman who killed baby deer sentenced to 80 hour service and $500 fine

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remember this story? Who grabs a shovel when they see a baby deer? Seriously!

Woman defends flower garden, kills baby deer
Many people take their gardening extremely seriously, but Dorothy Richardson seems to have taken her passion for flowers a bit too far.

Richardson, 76, of the Cleveland suburb of Euclid, has been accused of beating a baby deer to death with a shovel after finding it grazing in her flower garden. She pleaded no contest last Thursday to one misdemeanor count of animal abuse and was found guilty by a municipal court judge who sentenced her to 80 hours of community service and ordered her to pay a $500 fine. Richardson said she became frightened when she saw the fawn in her garden and had only meant to shoo it away with the shovel. Apparently she just didn't know her own strength...



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