Two women convicted after 100 animals found living in 'house of horrors'
A case dubbed "one of the most horrific cases ever investigated" has seen two women in their 60s convicted over animal cruelty.
AdelaideThis is a news collection page about animal cruelty. Acts of animal cruelty are against the law and subject to various punishment by courts in Australia and around the world. In recent years in Australia, there have been prominent stories about the abuse of dogs, cats, emus, kangaroos and quokka. According to the RSPC, animal cruelty can take many different forms. It includes overt and intentional acts of violence towards animals, but it also includes animal neglect or the failure to provide for the welfare of an animal under one's control. Police raids have sometimes discovered farms where horses, cows and other livestock are in terrible condition as a result of starvation and terrible treatment by humans.