A Hawaiian teenager is confronted with a maximum of 10 years in prison after he and friend have stolen the pet of a woman and slaughtered to make his way in a $ 1,000 hunting match.
Jayden Jarnesky-Magana, 19, and complicit Kryan Ryan Saito-Carino, 20, is said to have removed “Eddie” from Sarah Haynes’ Maui Farm last May and then filmed their dogs to attack the poor creature in a false hunt video that they placed on social media.
They continued to kill and nap Eddie and entered him at the last minute in a local ‘biggest pigs’ row – but the hunters there became suspicious after they remarked that the pig was castrated and was much heavier than the typical wild pigs who came in the game.
“Nobody believed him,” Haynes told Khon2.
Eddie was even too heavy for the two men to wear their truck to the scales, Haynes said, but they eventually walked away with the $ 1,000 prize money for the largest on the pig hunted.
Jarnesky-Magana and Saito-Carino were both arrested and charged in August with animal abuse later last year after a police investigation, Maui reported now.
In January, Jarnesky-Magana changed his plea of not guilty of no competition and was planned to be convicted on Wednesday for crime counts of first grade animal abuse and cattle theft who each have a maximum conviction of five years.
Saito-Carino is also expected to change his plea in no match on Wednesday, according to Kohn2.
Haynes has organized a meeting outside the Wailuku courthouse to increase awareness about animal abuse.
“Eddie was super friendly,” said Haynes. “Small children could hug him, you know, he would sit. You could let him bark like a dog. I mean, he was just the most cute, sweet, soft soul.”
She had adopted the pig a few years ago and brought him to her Kitty Charme farm in Haiku after he was found with scars and rope burns around Kihei, probably because he was used to train hunting dogs.
“And you know, his life started with cruelty, and I was determined to make it disappear for life. And unfortunately it ended in the same way as it started, you know, with hunting dogs.”
“I don’t want to ruin anyone’s life and I don’t think there is a possibility that they will get the 10 years, but what I would like to see, I would like to see a punishment,” he added.
“This was not an innocent mistake, this was not a confusion about the law. This was a planned attack on my pet,” she added.
