Three months probation and 45 hours of community service.
That was the punishment handed down in an Onondaga County Courtroom Thursday to the 18-year-old suspect who pleaded guilty in December to a charge of animal cruelty in connection with the death of Faye the swan, the mother at the Manlius Swan Pond. WSYR-TV in Syracuse reports the unnamed 18-year-old didn’t even have to pay a fine for killing Faye because prosecutors didn’t ask for one.
The mother swan was taken from the pond, killed, and eaten last Memorial Day. Faye’s four babies were also taken. Two were recovered in a shopping center, the other two from a home in Syracuse.
