Judge delays animal cruelty sentencing

YOUNGSTOWN — A municipal judge wants to know a lot more about Jody L. Seabolt before he sentences the West Side woman whose German Shepherd puppy had a temperature of 106 degrees before it died in June.

“There needs to be a penalty here, I’m not sure what yet,” Judge Robert A. Douglas Jr. told Seabolt and her lawyer on Tuesday. “The level of responsibility is just not acceptable.”

Seabolt, 48, of South Lakeview Avenue, formerly of South Portland Avenue, was in court to be sentenced on one count of animal cruelty and two counts of child endangering. The judge reset the sentencing to Nov. 25 and ordered that Seabolt’s caseworker and a supervisor from the county’s Children Services Board be there.

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