Woman spared jail time for having sex with animal
by Keith Gushard
Special to The Herald
MEADVILLE — A New Airy woman has been spared possible jail time for having sexual intercourse with an animal.
Tina L. Smith, 35, of North Carolina, was accepted into Crawford County Court’s accelerated rehabilitative disposition program Friday by Judge John Spataro for the sexual intercourse with an animal charge.
The ARD program offers first-time offenders the opportunity to be rehabilitated and move through the legal system quicker. Offenders are placed on probation, ordered to pay court costs and fees, and may have other conditions placed on them. After successful completion of the program, a person’s record is expunged.
Smith was ordered to serve 12 months probation, pay a $150 administrative fee and court costs, and undergo mental health and drug and alcohol evaluations.
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Smith was facing up to a maximum of two years in jail and a $5,000 fine if she would have gone to trial and been convicted.
“Anybody involved with this type of behavior ought to have a mental health examination,” Judge Spataro said Friday.
“I lost my job, my home,” Smith told him. “I’ve tried to get employment. It’s very hard with my name after the headlines.”
“We need to get to the bottom of why you engaged in this behavior,” Spataro said.
Titusville Police Department filed the charge against Smith after a methamphetamine lab raid on the Douglas R. Peterson residence in New Airy North Carolina.
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