Alabama Man Gets 6 Year Prison Term For Animal Cruelty

HEADLAND, Ala. (AP) – An Alabama man has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges after authorities said they found six emaciated pit bulls abandoned with no food or water.

Defense attorney Cada Carter told the Dothan Eagle (http://bit.ly/2e8NRbx) his client, 26-year-old Quenton Eugene Mathis, pleaded guilty Thursday and was sentenced to serve six years in prison.

Mathis was arrested in November. Similar charges are pending against his wife.

The newspaper reports Henry County sheriff’s investigators went to the couple’s home near Headland with county human resources officials to take custody of the couple’s 4-year-old son.

They found a half-eaten pit bull in the home near another pit bull. They found four other emaciated and undernourished pit bulls. Investigators learned the family had left a few weeks earlier and left the dogs behind.