He was also convicted Friday of 30 counts of interference with injuries to certain domestic animals, and 30 counts of overdriving, torturing and injuring animals.<\/p>\n
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Boyd appeared in the Tioga County Court House in Owego, N.Y. wearing all orange with shackles around his ankles and wrists, according to WETM 18 News.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\nAlso packing the courthouse were numerous racing industry stakeholders, including many who lost horses in the fire. Some of the horse owners gave testimony. One, Mindy Findling Repko, had five horses that died in the blaze.<\/p>\n
She spoke about the psychological toll the crime had taken on her. She now has panic attacks when she enters her barn back home in Indiana, she said, as reported by 18 News. When it first happened, she thought she was having a heart attack. Now, her husband\u2019s words telling her that her horses were dead play over and over again in her head, she added.<\/p>\n
\u2018You Murdered Our Kids\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\nRepko said that the horses had filled a huge gap in the couples\u2019 life because they had never had children.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what you did,\u201d she said, looking directly at Fenton. \u201cYou murdered our kids.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fenton was given an opportunity to speak after Repko\u2019s testimony but chose to remain silent.<\/p>\n
The defendant has a lengthy rap sheet in Pennsylvania, including driving under the influence of a controlled substance, criminal trespassing, criminal mischief resulting in property damage, and possessing a small amount of marijuana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Pennsylvania man charged with setting a fire at Tioga Downs racetrack that killed 30 racehorses and two cats was sentenced to a maximum of 15 years in prison Friday. It\u2019s still unclear exactly why Boyd Fenton, 32, of Athens, Pa., deliberately started the barn fire, which also injured a trainer who tried to rescue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":317955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14577],"tags":[85803,90627,90628,86291],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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