Those found guilty of violating the law will be charged with a federal felony offense and will face a penalty of up to seven years in prison.
Also read Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act Signed Into Law
[Note from Robert Grillo, Free From Harm: New Federal animal cruelty law reinforces the myth that the billions exploited for food or any other established economic purpose do not suffer from cruelty or abuse.]
President Trump signed the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT)
Act into law, making animal cruelty a federal felony.
The PACT Act closes the loophole in the 2010 Animal Crush Video Prohibition
Act by outlawing crushing, burning, drowning, suffocating, impaling, and
sexual exploitation of animals. The 2010 Act previously only banned the
actual creation and distribution of animal crushing videos, not the
underlying acts of animal abuse.
Those found guilty of violating the law will be charged with a federal
felony offense and will face a penalty of up to seven years in prison.
LCA has long since realized the correlation between animal cruelty and human cruelty.
In 2016, LCA launched the FBI Tracks Animal Cruelty campaign to support the FBI's efforts to record all incidents of animal cruelty in the United States with the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
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