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         "ANIMAL PEOPLE",  June 1998
THIS IS OLD NEWS BUT CASES LIKE THIS ARE STILL TAKING PLACE ALL OVER THE WORLD. For the animals. Dick Weavil Barry Herbeck, 36, of Janesville, Wisconsin, pleaded no contest to five felony counts of animal abuse resulting in death and one felony count of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. A new girlfriend called police in April 1997 upon discovering parts of a dead cat in Herbeck's kitchen plumbing, and hearing from his two young children that Herbeck had taped their puppy's mouth shut, then left him to die in front of them. According to police, Herbeck admitted collecting cats via "free to good home" ads, then killing them through acts of bestiality. The remains of the puppy and numerous cats were discovered in his freezer, on his porch, and in his yard. "The charges of sexual gratification with a cat and the puppy killing charge have been dropped," the Alliance objects. "It is imperative that the judge know" at sentencing scheduled for July 6 "that this kind of violence will not be tolerated. In 1989 Herbeck served six months in jail for first degree sexual assault of his stepdaughter. He has sole custody of his stepdaughter now." Herbeck has been free on $25,000 bond since his arrest. Rock County assistant district attorney said the purpose of the plea bargain was to spare the children from testifying at a trial, and said he would ask for a sentence of four years in jail plus six years on probation. The allowable maximum under the charges to which Herbeck pleaded would be 10 years in jail. Letters may be addressed to Judge Richard Werner, Rock County Courthouse, 51 South Main Street, Janesville,  WI 53545. The Alliance for Animals may be contacted for further information at 608-257-6333;  fax 608-257-6400;  email alliance@allanimals.org>> UNQUOTE If You Read Further, You Too Will Cry. Barry Herbeck, 37, formerly of Janesville, WI, will be facing sentencing July 6, 1998 in a   Rock County Circuit Court, on five felony counts of animal abuse that resulted in death,   and one felony count of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.   Previous to his Tuesday May 5th hearing, he had also been charged with one count of   obtaining sexual gratification from an animal, and the death of Nikko, an  8 month old   German Shepherd puppy. He had admitted to police that he committed " an act of sexual   gratification involving his sex organ and the anus of a black cat", after he killed the cat,   around Valentine's Day of 1997.   The body of Nellie, a female black cat, was found in Herbeck's home. An autopy   examination showed clear evidence that Nellie had been sodomized, both of her back   legs and neck had been broken, and she had massive abdominal injury.   Court records show Herbeck had a first-degree sexual assault conviction from January   1989. He was found guilty of First Degree Sexual Assault for performing oral sex on a 6   year old girl.   Police were first called to Herbeck's home after his former live-in girlfriend told police she   found cat entrails in the garbage disposal while she was cleaning the house in April of   1997. She told police she remembered coming home about a month prior to that and   finding a dead cat in the hallway, and also recalled the man's 8-year-old daughter saying   that he had killed the family puppy.   Herbeck allegedly wrapped duct-tape around the mouth and nose of the 8 month old   puppy, Nikki, and sealed the puppy in a small plastic container until it starved to death.   The rotting corpse of an 8-month-old female German shepherd was found stuffed in a   container on Herbeck's porch.   Herbeck told police he took in numerous cats and had been killing them since at least   January of 1997. He claimed that killing the cats helped him cope with stress and anger   from past child abuse.   He confessed to killing Monkey, Harley, Morris and Butterball by punching them,   twisting their necks around, or throwing them against the wall until they died. Their poor   little tortured bodies were discovered with their necks, jaws and other bones broken. He   said he felt better after he killed the animals, and the more he killed the greater his   relief. He also told police he felt guilty for killing the animals.   According to police reports, Herbeck said that after he killed the cats he had in his house,   he would answer ads in newspapers for free cats.   Local residents told police Herbeck answered their newspaper ads for "kittens free to a   good home".   Herbeck reportedly took his children along with him to answer ads for free animals.   One Janesville woman told police that Herbeck took two adult orange tabbies and one   gray and white tabby on April 3, 1997 in response to her ad for free kittens. He initially   took the three adult cats and then later also agreed to take a mother cat and three   kittens. He brought his children along on both visits, she told police.   Three adult cats were found with their necks twisted in trash containers outside   Herbeck's home on April 9, 1997, the day of his arrest.   An Edgerton woman also called police after seeing Herbeck's picture in the paper and   said he came to her house in April with his daughter and son, at around the same time   that he took the other cats. The woman told police that Herbeck offered to take the cats   she was advertising as 'free to a good home', but the cats had already been promised   to someone else.   The woman said he called her about one week later, and tried to talk her to into giving   him her Dalmation, telling her that his daughter had fallen in love with the dog.
  The woman told police she was reporting these incidents to them because she wanted
  them to know that Herbeck had used his children to get animals.
  Also a Janesville man called police after seeing Herbeck's picture in the local paper. He
  had also given his cat to Herbeck, who responded to an ad for a cat free to a good
  home.
  The man said Herbeck brought his children along with him at the time, and he thought it
  was very unusual that the kids didn't show any excitement about getting a new cat.
  The man told police he later figured that the kids showed no excitement because they
  probably knew what was going to happen to the cat.
  Several other dogs may have fallen victim to Herbeck's perversion. A six year-old
  Shepard Husky, Ginger, disappeared into Herbeck's home. The collar and leash of a
  Chocolate Lab was found in Herbeck's home, but the dog has never been seen again.
  Herbeck also admitted putting other dogs in the same container where Nikki was
  imprisoned, starved and left to die.
 
 
  Rock County Humane Society official Cheryl Silha reviewed veterinarian reports on the
  dead animals and said the animals had been tortured. "This wasn't a "throw against the
  wall once" situation. This was over and over. These animals were tortured and they died
  a slow death,"  Silha said.
  Silha said the five dead cats found at Herbeck's home were taken from one person. "We
  know he went through a steady supply of animals. How many, we won't really know,
  since he said he was putting them in the dumpster where he worked."
  It has been estimated that Herbeck may have killed as many as 20 cats.
  Herbeck's trial was scheduled for May 13, 1998 but he entered into a plea agreement
  with the prosecutor, supposedly meant to spare his two young children the trauma of
  testifying at his trial.
  Herbeck pleaded 'no contest' May 5, 1998 to five felony counts of animal abuse resulting
  in death, and one felony count of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
  The felony charge for killing the German shepherd puppy was dismissed by prosecutor
  Scott Dirks after Herbeck's defense attorney, Kelly Mattingly, filed a motion to have the
  charge dismissed because the dog's carcass was destroyed. The misdemeanor charge
  of bestiality has also been dismissed because a white substance found on Nellie's
  body cannot be identified as Herbeck's semen.
  All this despite Herbeck's admission to these crimes!
  Herbeck could receive 10 years in prison for the animal abuse charges, but Scott Dirks,
  assistant district attorney, told the court he would recommend a four year prison
  sentence and an additional six years probation. Local animal welfare groups fear
  Herbeck may get off on nothing but probation!
  Judge Richard Werner is not bound by the plea agreement, and could sentence
  Herbeck to up to 10 years in prison on July 6th.
  The hearing was attended by nineteen members of the Humane Society who are angry
  with Scott Dirks proposed sentence recommendation. Former president of the Humane
  Society, Nancy Hansen-Benett, thinks the sentence should be much longer than four
  years.
  Herbeck remains free on bond pending the sentencing hearing.
 
 
   Reports of abuse witnessed by his 8 year old child
  Herbeck's 8 year old daughter told police her father became angry after the puppy
  urinated on the living room floor, and that she watched as her father  taped the puppy's
  mouth shut and stuffed it into the container. She said he told her not to let the puppy out,
  and not to feed the puppy, even though the puppy was crying and whining.
  She told police that about a week afterwards her father moved the container out onto the
  porch. She also said she saw him throw at least one cat against the wall so hard that it
  died, and she saw another cat lying dead in the bathtub after it had bitten her father. She
  also saw a large heavy box in the freezer, which she suspected was yet another dead
  cat. It was.
  This 8 year old child also showed police a large piece of carpet over other carpeting at
  the bottom of the stairs in the home. She told police the carpeting was used to cover
  blood stains caused by her father throwing animals at the walls and down the stairs.
  The child was 8 years old at the time of these incidents. She will most likely bear the
  emotional scars of witnessing these horrors for the rest of her life.
  Herbeck was ordered to have no contact with his then 8 year-old daughter, 10 year-old
  son, his ex-wife, or his former live-in girlfriend.
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