NJ woman spared prison in dog-in-trash chute case

... She got 18 months of probation instead. Curtis, 29, admitted that she left the pit bull tied to a railing outside her Newark apartment building in 2011 when she left town for a week. The emaciated dog was found in a plastic bag at the bottom of the ...

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