I am absolutely speechless when it comes to this story, except that we MUST demand the full extent of the law be brought down on these two women. Truly horrendous!
— Kenn
By JENNIFER BAIN and KATHIANNE BONIELLO for New York Post
Their mouths were muzzled and wrapped in so much tape they couldn’t breathe, bark or eat. Their fur was matted with filth and the house was crammed with so much trash, it hid the floor.
A Long Island mother and daughter were arrested yesterday after more than a dozen tortured dogs and cats were rescued from a filth-riddled Rockville Centre home that included more than two dozen decomposing animal remains, cops said.
Judge Anna Anzalone teared up as prosecutors showed pictures of a dog skull with tape still visible on it, as well as the squalor in the small house.
Faith Ross, 54, a secretary, and Francesca Maselli, 24, a nursing-home aide, pleaded not guilty and were being held at the Nassau County Jail on more than $75,000 bail each on three felony animal-cruelty counts.
Hempstead town officials were tipped to the wretched conditions inside the seemingly sedate Montauk Avenue home when someone complained about the smell coming from the house.
When officials arrived, the dogs could be heard barking and there was a smell of gas, so Animal Control as well as National Grid were called in.
Inside, authorities said, they found a nightmare: 15 dehydrated, trembling animals covered in urine and feces, amid two feet of trash on every piece of flooring, and the rotting corpses of dozens more.
There were six Chihuahuas, three dachshunds, an English bulldog, a Yorkshire terrier, a Shih Tzu, a boxer and two cats among the survivors. Another pooch, a collie mix, was taken directly to an animal hospital for emergency care.
They also took several pounds of matted, dirt-encrusted fur from around the home. A new car in the driveway was packed with trash, grocery bags and cans of dog food.
“Fifteen animals were rescued from living hell,” said Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray. “The people who did this are sick and evil.”
Officials also discovered the remains of 26 other animals, including eight cats, five ferrets, five parrots, and five dogs, police said.
“They were really creepy,” said neighbor Anthony Conte, 25. “They only came out at 4:30 in the morning. They would never walk more than one dog. The dog was dirty. You could tell.”
The animals are not available for adoption because Ross and Maselli refused to forfeit ownership, forcing the Town of Hempstead to go through a civil-court hearing within the next 10 days.
Ross’ ex-husband, Louis Maselli, said he has had no contact with daughter Francesca for more than a decade because Ross cut her off from him and his family after the courts refused to require visitation.
“My daughter was taken away from me when she was 11 and taught to hate me and my family,” he told The Post. “I gave up, finally, after 10 years of phone calls and letters.”
These women are sick evil people, They should sit in a jail cell and not be fed or allowed to bathe so they can they see what is was like for those poor babies. And the daughter is a nursing home aid?? I feel sorry for the seniors she has to take care of.
These people are obviously severely mentally disturbed. They should be institutionalized, medicated and never allowed to see civilian life again.
The laws need to strict. They should do ten years of jail time and never be allowed to own any other living animal.
someone should tape their mouth shut and lit them starve. stricter laws a must
I believe they should be locked up forever, the mother has groomed a nightmare for years to come if she is not locked up for as long as the dogs were and the ones that died stayed in their nightmare thus so should these women.. SHAME ON THESE SO CALLED WOMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why does god put people like this on earth. They don’t deserve a life on earth, they deserve a life in hell.
Disturbing in SO MANY WAYS!!! My heart goes out to all the fur babies that had to suffer and ultimately die in their cruel hands.
Thank God somebody was able to rescue the remaining ones before they ended up the same.
Those two evil spawns should have to endure the same kind of fate the deceased animals had to endure.
Makes me want to throw up! poooooor fur babies!
i have lived too long.
Perhaps silence and action needs to start happening to people like this. Nature is cruel but we don’t have to be.
They should be forced to give the animals up there are plenty of people who love animals that would take them these two should get a taste of there own medicine
How dare they, what have those poor babys ever done to them? but give them there love! i hopethey go away for a hell of a long time, makes me cry reading this!
I truly hope they are jailed and suffer tenfold the terror, anguish & suffering that these poor pets went through.
What is wrong with this world? These two monsters need to be locked up and the key should be thrown away!! Of course, that’s never going to happen!! Sadly, a smack on the hands and a fine is probably all they will get!! God bless all of those dear animals that suffered at their filthy, evil hands!!
I think they need to be treated the same way they treated them poor helpless animals!!!
These women deserve exactly the treatment they doled out to the animals they tormented and killed.
These women deserve exactly what they doled out to the animals they tormented.
They both have sick eyes…….
It makes me wonder what her daughter had to endure b4 she became as sick as the mother.