MOSCOW, ID – The 58-year-old woman charged in the Princeton animal cruelty case involving 12 dogs, including three that died, has pleaded not guilty.
Beth Davis faces four counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty. Davis pleaded not guilty to all counts in court in Moscow on Monday morning.
Latah County Sheriff’s Deputies found two dead dogs and ten starving dogs on Davis’s property early this month. One of the dogs that was rescued died several days later at a veterinary hospital in Moscow. Davis is scheduled to be back in court for a pretrial conference on February 24th.
Her son, 37-year-old James Schraufnagel, and his wife, 45-year-old Jeannine Schraufnagel, are each charged with 12 counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty. According to court documents, Davis told deputies that James owned the dogs. All three live on Davis’s property in separate trailers. The Schraufnagels pleaded not guilty to all counts last week. The couple is set to have their pretrial conferences on February 17th.
Court documents allege that James told deputies that he was prohibited from feeding the dogs because of a restraining order against him from his mother. The documents also show that Jeaninne reportedly told deputies that they ran out of money to feed the dogs.
