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National Animal Nonprofit Says SD Justice Advocate A Top Dog

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A national animal defense nonprofit has honored a Lead woman who pushed heavily to make South Dakota the last state in the nation to make animal cruelty a felony.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund has named Shari Kosel one of its Top Ten Animal Defenders for 2015.

Kosel is the co-founder and chair of South Dakotans Fighting Animal Cruelty Together.

She petitioned the state Legislature for years to make malicious animal cruelty a penalty.
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Last year lawmakers passed a measure that reserves felony charges only for those who willfully and maliciously seek to harm animals, while keeping a misdemeanor penalty for neglect or mistreatment.

The ALDF says Kosel began pushing for tougher penalties after her neighbor’s dog was tortured and murdered in 2008.

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