Former Owner of Seized Maryland Horses Seeks Change to Cruelty Sentence

by: The Associated Press
A woman convicted of animal cruelty for neglecting horses on her western Maryland farm has asked a judge to loosen the terms of her probation so she can move out of state. Barbara P. Reinken, 62, wants to move to North Carolina but authorities there have refused to take over her supervision, attorney Edward Button told Washington County Circuit Judge M. Kenneth Long Tuesday. Reinken is ...