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Horse boarding facility scrutinized
After allegations of animal abuse and neglect, the owner of Serenity Ridge Farm defended her business against complaints made by some of her former clients.
Serenity Ridge is a horse boarding facility in Pullman and owner and manager of the stable Katie Peet-Walker said the allegations were “malicious,” “frustrating” and “disappointing.” Whitman County Sheriff Brett Meyers said he received a concerned phone call regarding animal neglect at the stable earlier this year. When he went out to the farm to investigate it he said he found the claim to be unfounded.
“I didn’t see anything that rose to the level of concern where we would get involved,” he said.
Meyers said often times people have different definitions of neglect, but he found nothing criminal.
The Whitman County Sheriff’s Office received a similar complaint in September of last year, he said. A different officer investigated the claim, but concluded it was also unfounded.
Since January, about 10 clients have taken their horses from Serenity Ridge, former boarders Erika Matson and Alexa Rolin said.
Walker said the number is not true and only five clients have left since then. She also said many clients at the stable are happy with it and love being there.
In her initial phone conversation with The Daily Evergreen, Walker said she was “in the middle of a lawsuit” against some of her former clients. Later, when she met with The Daily Evergreen, she said she had not filed charges but is working with a lawyer to see if they have a case.
“We are exploring a libel case just because we don’t want it to impact future relations,” she said. “It’s a small town. There is no basis for the very malicious attack.” Regional investigator for the Better Business Bureau (BBB) Zan Deery said they are also investigating a pattern of complaints with the farm. “We’ve gotten enough complaints to raise a red flag,” Deery said.
Serenity Ridge is doing their best to work with the BBB, Walker said, but she has doubts they will reach an agreement.
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Hoffman last week declined to speculate on who else might be charged in the case, but said anyone "who participated in the abuse or neglect or knew about it and did nothing may be hearing from us in the very near future." The deputy prosecutor also
After allegations of animal abuse and neglect, the owner of Serenity Ridge Farm defended her business against complaints made by some of her former clients. Serenity Ridge is a horse boarding facility in Pullman and owner and manager of the stable
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The spectrum of child abuse is wide. It includes not only children who have suffered physical abuse with fractures and bruises (“the battered child”) but also those who have experienced emotional abuse, sexual abuse, deliberate poisoning, and the infliction of fictitious illness on them by their parents (Munchausen syndrome by proxy). Sexual abuse, in which dependent, developmentally immature children are involved in sexual activities that they do not fully comprehend and to which they cannot give informed consent, has become increasingly recognized. Girls are involved mainly, and their fathers are the usual offenders. Sexual abuse frequently does not come to light until the older girl develops a psychosomatic illness, runs away from home, or is truant from school. Surveys in North America and Europe that ask adult subjects to recall childhood mistreatment indicate that between 10 and 30 percent of young girls are subjected to exploitation or abuse as widely defined above. Estimates of abuse or neglect by parents or guardians range from about 1 out of every 100 children to more than 1 in 7, and figures are far higher if emotional abuse and neglect are included. Cruelty to children has several major causes. Abusive patterns of behaviour by parents can be viewed as maladaptive responses to stressful situations and feelings of powerlessness. As such, they represent the warped efforts of adults to master situations that are out of their control and to regain a psychological equilibrium through the imposition of their will on defenseless children. Psychiatric and pediatric studies have shown that a large proportion of parents who abuse their children were themselves physically or emotionally mistreated during their childhood. Typically overdisciplined and deprived of parental love in their infancy, these parents repeat the pattern with their own children, often in the belief that they are legitimately exercising their parental right to punish a child.
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