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California county pays $300k for illegally seizing and killing a 9-year-old girl's pet goat

Ellsworth Toohey
Nov 01, 2024
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Shasta County officials agreed to pay a $300,000 settlement after deputies drove hundreds of miles to seize a 9-year-old girl's pet named Cedar, which was later slaughtered despite the family's attempts to save it from a county fair's livestock auction.

"As a result, the young girl who raised Cedar lost him, and Cedar …

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