{"id":8051,"date":"2017-12-25T15:14:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T20:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/host1.thenewmasteringanger.com\/?p=8051"},"modified":"2022-06-15T04:57:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T08:57:54","slug":"man-guilty-of-child-and-animal-abuse-sentenced-to-anger-management-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/blog\/man-guilty-of-child-and-animal-abuse-sentenced-to-anger-management-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Man guilty of child and animal abuse sentenced to anger management classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, June 26, a 25-year-old Illinois man &#8211; formerly of Greencastle, Indiana &#8211; pleaded guilty in two separate cases that were carrying charges of child battery and animal cruelty. Judge Charles Brown sentenced Kenneth Collins to 18 months in prison, albeit suspended &#8211; excluding 92 days of jail time already served &#8211; pending probation. One of the conditions of Collins&#8217; probation is\u00a0<a class=\"dnautolink\" href=\"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">court ordered anger management<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Local publication the Greencastle\u00a0Banner-Graphic reports that Collins was initially arrested in August 2012 when neighbors called\u00a0Greencastle Police over hearing a dog being beaten, followed by eyewitness accounts of Collins&#8217; nine-month-old puppy lying dead on his back porch.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bannergraphic.com\/story\/1981558.html\">Collins had punched the dog repeatedly<\/a>\u00a0because it had apparently\u00a0committed some minor damage to one of his Air Jordan sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>In March of this year, Collins was arrested again after smacking a four-year-old boy&#8217;s buttocks, which resulted in bruising. The residents of the neighboring apartments were, again, witness to Collins&#8217; actions.<\/p>\n<p>Animal cruelty is a Class A misdemeanor and and child battery is a Class D felony. These charges carried initial sentences of 12 months and 18 months respectively, which Collins would have had to have served simultaneously. But the circumstances of the case, including the defendant&#8217;s age, led the judge to delay the jail time in lieu of probation that, if successful, would commute the prison sentence completely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is Mr. Collins&#8217; first run-in with the law,&#8221; said his defense attorney, John Razumich. &#8220;He is young and capable of being rehabilitated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Individuals that are mandated to undergo anger management counseling are encouraged to contact Conflict Coaching &amp; Consulting. Our online\u00a0<a class=\"dnautolink\" href=\"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">anger management classes<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; with a track record of thousands of successful cases &#8211; ensure total privacy and can be taken entirely at your discretion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, June 26, a 25-year-old Illinois man &#8211; formerly of Greencastle, Indiana &#8211; pleaded guilty in two separate cases that were carrying charges of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog",""],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44484,"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8051\/revisions\/44484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}