Too bad prison isn’t his forever home
Jeffrey Nally Jr. is in prison now, serving a sentence of 9 to 45 years, which means, in West Virginia, he could get out in less than five.
And that, in itself, would be another crime.
Nally was sentenced last month for torturing and killing dogs, at least 29 of which he collected by perusing Craigslist’s ”free to a good home” ads.
While the sentence isn’t harsh enough for most animal advocates, it’s a pretty significant one, relative to most others meted out in abuse cases, and given it was handed down by a judge in West Virginia.
Then again, Nally, based on court records and witness statements about his heinous acts, seemed pretty close to graduating, as many an animal abuser does, to human killing.
According to his former girlfriend, Jessica Sellers, Nally had been holding her captive in his home in New Cumberland and terrorizing her by torturing and murdering the animals in front of her.
Sellers said Nally told her the only way she was leaving his home was “in a body bag.” On the day of his arrest, she claimed, he forced her to hold a puppy as he bored into its head with an electric drill.
His victims were obtained through Craigslist — dogs advertised as free to a good home. Nally would pick them up and return them to his place, about as far from a “good home” as you could possibly get.
Nally’s house was raided in March of 2011 after Sellers’ mother called authorities. Police found 29 dog carcasses, guns, tools covered with blood and hair, and what appeared to be a beagle’s pelt and eyes in a jar, according to an account in PetPardons.com.
Nally, 20, faced 29 counts of felony animal cruelty, one count of domestic battery, one count of kidnapping and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm.
In January, he turned down a plea deal, but in April, as his trial neared, he accepted it. He entered guilty pleas to nine of the charges of felony animal abuse and received one to five years for each count. In exchange, all the other charges, except for the firearms one, were dropped.
He will have to serve a minimum of five years before he can apply for an early release.
Posted by jwoestendiek May 18th, 2012 under Muttsblog.
Tags: abuse, animal cruelty, animals, beagle, craigslist, cruelty to animals, dogs, drill, eyes, free to good home, jeffrey nally, jessica sellers, new cumberland, pelt, pets, prison, sentence, torture, west virginia
Comments
Comment from Tami
Time May 18, 2012 at 3:23 pm
There arent words for how I feel about this bastard. Rot in hell.
Comment from sharon
Time May 18, 2012 at 6:35 pm
Agreed!
Comment from Alexis
Time May 18, 2012 at 7:57 pm
First thing that NEEDS DESPERATELY to happen is to get rid of PLEA BARGAINING all the plea bargain is designed to do is save the court system money – but the actual reality is it lets monsters like this back out on the streets to do it again. I hope the kidnapping and domestic violence charges are under a separate criminal case from the animal abuse – if so and he is convicted hopefully the judge will make the sentences consecutive instead of concurrent.
Failing that maybe we just need to adopt the best part of the Code of Hammurabi (ancient codified laws from biblical times) – the part that demands “eye for an eye.” In short, do to him what he did to the dogs. Right down to the pelt and eyeballs in a jar.
Comment from KateH
Time May 19, 2012 at 11:33 am
He’s so lucky it’s illegal for me to hold him down and drill into his head! I hope he gets a shivved in prison and there are no witnesses!
Comment from michelle
Time May 18, 2012 at 12:19 pm
burn the asshole how sick and there worried about pit bulls give me a fricken break lock his ass up and throw away the key uuuuuggggggggggggggggggg