Charoyd Henrence Bell of Natchez, Mississippi, in Adams County is proving that a sociopathic animal abuser will continue to perpetrate crimes against animals until stopped by outside intervention. The legislative arm of our government must recognize that sociopaths and psychopaths have a strong leaning toward cruelty and violence that cannot be addressed with a mere slap on the wrist.

In Defense of Animals is following the case of Charoyd Henrence Bell, who first was arrested in March of 2016 for carrying a creature in a cruel manner after his posts on social media depicting him holding puppies by their ears and abusing them went viral. In May of 2017, the Adams County Sheriff’s Department arrested Bell for fighting dogs. He will be bound over to the next grand jury hearing, yet unscheduled.

On September 5, Bell went before the Natchez Municipal Court Judge on his latest charges of larceny/dog theft. He was charged with stealing 10 dogs. Natchez Police Chief Walter Armstrong reported that all 10 dogs were returned to their rightful guardians. Bell, clearly a repeat offender, and without remorse or concern for the law, will be bound over to the grand jury when it next convenes on this charge as well.

In Defense of Animals' Justice for Animals Campaign is working in Mississippi with like-minded coalitions and organizations to expose the predatory nature of animal abusers, and to pass the toughest ordinances a city or county may enact to impress upon a state legislature that buckles under the pressure of the Farm Bureau, that their constituents want an end to the Bureau’s interference in the passage of statues that will penalize violent criminals to the degree that matches their depraved crimes.