A seventh former Plainville Farms worker has pleaded responsible to animal cruelty expenses in a case that dates again to 2021.
Mitchell Eugene Buckley, 24, Aspers, Pennsylvania, entered the plea on August 16 within the Cumberland County Court docket of Frequent Pleas in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
His plea follows earlier responsible pleas entered by Kevin Lee Wagaman, Francisco Lebron-Cruz, Bryiant Perez-Paez, Bryce Washington, Juan Carlos Turi Baeza and Jose Enrique Turi Baeza. All seven males have been sentenced to 12 months of supervised probation. They’re additionally all forbidden from holding a job during which the care of animals is concerned.
The court docket motion stems from prison expenses that had been filed after Folks for the Moral Therapy of Animals (PETA) circulated a video in August 2021. That video depicted scenes of turkeys being thrown, kicked and picked up by their necks.
Fees towards 5 different suspects have been filed, with no court docket ruling being reached as of but.
Shortly after the video surfaced, Plainville Farms introduced it was cooperating with legislation enforcement companies and had launched its personal investigation into the matter. The results of that investigation was the termination of 13 workers, in addition to the acquisition of physique cameras for a third-party animal welfare specialist to observe all stay operations by workers.
The corporate additionally changed catching workers with a third-party vendor to offer catching companies.
Beforehand a part of Hain Celestial’s Hain Pure Protein phase, Plainville Farms was acquired in 2019 by a newly-formed investor group referred to as Plainville Manufacturers LLC.
Plainville Farms, in keeping with the WATTPoultry.com Prime Poultry Corporations Database, processed 90 million kilos of stay turkeys throughout the previous 12 months. It ranks because the 15th largest turkey firm in the US.
