Jennifer Jenkins, left, consults with temporary defense attorney Joely O’Rourke in Lewis County District Court.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – The Onalaska woman who owns the nine horses and the two acres they were seized from by the county was upset to find herself in court yesterday.
“Outraged, floored, that they didn’t just come out and help me,” Jennifer Jenkins said after the hearing. “And turned it into a giant fiasco.”
Jenkins was arrested for animal cruelty the day before, following the evaluation of a young horse found trapped on its side in a pen of mud for an unknown length of time.
Tuesday April 5, 2016
Her own veterinarian advised the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office the animal was suffering from a painful skin infection from lack of shelter and/or blankets and was very malnourished, according to a narrative from the deputy assigned to the case.
The other eight horses occupying firmer ground had the same skin infection, according to Dr. Christian Affeldt. He described their living conditions with the mud and manure field as terrible, and not suitable for as many horses as Jenkins had on the property.
Lewis County District Court Judge Wade Samuelson yesterday afternoon entered pleas of not guilty to nine counts of animal cruelty and told Jenkins she may not possess or care for any livestock until her case is resolved.
Specifically, he ordered her not to ride, lead, groom or even pet a horse.
Jenkins, 44, was accompanied to court by a friend, and said she may have more comments on her situation later.
The fire department, deputies, code enforcement personnel and others spent hours on Tuesday rescuing the horse at Jenkins’ residence on the 2500 block of state Route 508 east of Onalaska.
Jenkins had gone to her veterinarian to ask for help and her neighbor summoned assistance by calling 911.
On Wednesday, Dr. Affeldt and also a veterinarian from the state Department of Agriculture looked at the animals. The state vet determined they were in pain caused from the deplorable living conditions and in serious need of medical attention, according to the sheriff’s office.
One of the mares is due to foal in the next couple of weeks, according to the Lewis County Animal Shelter.
Jenkins is charged with nine counts of animal cruelty in violation of Lewis County code. The offenses are gross misdemeanors with maximum penalties of 364 days in jail and a $5,000 fine.
While she was booked into jail Wednesday, she was released by posting bail in the amount of $4,500.
The code relates to criminal negligence and failing to provide adequate care.
Jenkins was assigned to a court appointed lawyer, David Brown.
Her next appearance in court is not yet scheduled, but would be expected to take place in a couple of weeks, according to Lewis County District.
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For background, read “Onalaska horse pulled from mud hole getting evaluated ” from Wednesday April 6, 2016, here
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Rescuers offer water to young horse after pulling it from mud on Tuesday. / Courtesy photo by Lewis County Fire District 1
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Wheres the proof did the judge and jury not hear the animal control officer testify that she was at our house all the time after hours, and every time some injury occurred, not to mention the multiple people law enforcement personnel that allowed numerous people to trespass without my permission and repeatedly allowed the injury and untimely deaths of known legally prescribed hippotherapy horses and guide dogs since 2003 when I took possession of the property in onalaska, Law enforcement also allowed trespassers to repeatedly steal hay grain round pens destroy fence, property ect. allowed neighbors dogs and neighbors on 4-wheelers to repeatedly run the horses while i was gone and the 10000’s of gallons of water pumped on to the property in only the area of the horses and how it got their, the prosecutor withholding exculpatory evidence the defense lawyer failed to obtain a complete police report that contained the witness list and the available evidence like people to contact about hay, plus bought a 1200lb bale of oat hay the day of incident feed grain red cell and supply list that included dry shavings in a dry location of the horse that got stuck in the mud at the jenkins ranch, plus wounds the county caused were treated by the JEnkins and scarlet oil was applied, it should also be noted that the hair coat of the injured horse and the other horses were altered with sheers and muddy up in a cheap attempt to defraud the Jenkins in which everyone followed suit in lies, fraud libel slander and repeated willful public official misconduct with intent repeatedly during this incident and every other incident I have needed law enforcement they have failed to adequately respond or take adequate statement from all involved and the horse shoer everyone thinks is a hero he trespassed several times hammering horse shoe nails in my horses feet clipping their toes or heals to short or both not a nice guy so beware and knowing my guide dogs on a personal level him kissing my daughter’s guide dog, Im pictured cleaning the injured horse who got stuck in the mud, To all involved who trespassed injured stole feed, dropped feces, injured horses, cowes stole property ect who anonymously called making up a blind record and people believing hearsay and not investigating and to those who hold medical license who testified all my horses were a #0 and #1 should be held accountable for committing libel and slander, If the available evidence was made available it would have told a different story including the Jenkins horses fit and healthy only disguised by people in power that took advantage of a disabled vulnerable adult and disabled children, even the chronicle has pictures they took and were supplied to them that show the horses on both days its a shame the chronicle inst interested in reporting truths and to all the people who have donated thank you however you need to pay donations to the district court under jennifer jenkins as all solicited help has not been applied to the proper department as no donation has been officially make record for the Jenkins horses who rightly need to be returned to the Jenkins as the Jenkins health has been seriously impacted due to the severity of people acting under the color of law which seems all they do is act and create hearsay without consequence, Lewis county government needs a major overall and that’s right you heard it right out of the Jenkins war pony;s mouth until next time as now the anonymous reports are flying in about my kids it never stops worst spite fencing scam in history 15 years worth of stress and loss at the hands of people that rely on hearsay for their own personal benefit. Time is getting near the deadline to sue for libel slander deformation public official misconduct the list goes on,I thought someone would have stepped forward to expose whats really going on, yet do I really want to try to sue Yes!!! But when no one Listens? or gives me my day in court to speak question witnesses evidence ect how are you going to know or get the other side of the story and to all who have relied on hearsay to make your opinion about the Jenkins shame on you, we are some of the nicest people most will ever meet, plus I wasn’t ranked 5th in the United States for horse conformation and movement judging for nothing and please take the blinders off as the door to the afterlife awaits and accumulated sins like this someone sometime will answer for just remember Karma doesn’t expire
IN Response to Real Og who wrote,
Loss of your animals is nothing. Wait till they start kidnapping your kids and grand kids, seizing assets/guns, or the irs comes knocking. They will put a lien on your place for unpaid court fines. They will strip you down. Welcome to America. Where immigrants have more rights than citizens. You have to be rich to have horses. Why should poor people have horses? Being homeless is cheaper ride the bus. Nobody needs horses anymore.
You think this is funny and you have no idea of my assets or income and I did nothing illegal other than put up with a bunch of greedy I want it,self serving people of Lewis County Washington who have legal authority and qualified immunity, to lie their butts off because there hasn’t been a president with big enough balls to put corrupt government behind us and make the Government accountable to the American people plain and simple and I know how it feels to have children illegally seized from you as well based on lies misrepresented facts and put back in the very same abusive home you were trying to protect them from so I have had a taste of the lowest of lowest scum of the earth based upon their actions and actual deceptions and there will always be a need for horses in every culture for all time read up on hippo therapy and guide animals and learn what there used for get a clue! How would you feel if what was done to me was done to you? and this isn’t about immigrants………..watch the news lately? basically illegally cross the boarder and separating you from your children is the consequence i guess for illegally coming to the US……..Deport the illegals with their illegal children problem solved then we wont be creating another American Debt that doesn’t benefit the American people, Please Jesus make America Great and make all government offices accountable for their illegal actions and eliminate qualified immunity because you cant commit a crime to reveal one. PS I make timely court fine payments .
Loss of your animals is nothing. Wait till they start kidnapping your kids and grand kids, seizing assets/guns, or the irs comes knocking. They will put a lien on your place for unpaid court fines. They will strip you down. Welcome to America. Where immigrants have more rights than citizens. You have to be rich to have horses. Why should poor people have horses? Being homeless is cheaper ride the bus. Nobody needs horses anymore.
Hey You Corrupt Lewis County People in Power, I am on to your BULLSHIT restricting evidence colluding exculpatory evidence and allowing appointed defense counsel to legally steal legally prescribed hippotherapy horses based upon trespass flooding stealing hay and feed destroying fences and guide dogs based on animal control creating their work in your back yard and allowed to repeatedly trespass without warning cause law enforcements children want the animals and wack you in the head to take your partially blind daughter’s guide dogs in 2009 not once, not twice 2015 but three times 2016 based upon libel slander trespass falsifying records, abuse of authority, failure of duty the list is long just to make a name for themselves and a prosecutor’s office that allows it to happen and ignores notice of the attempts on your life and no attorney that has big enough balls to represent me and my kids rights because they are all in on it and corrupt veterinarians that have the privilege of lying on the stand in concert with corrupt law enforcement that back corrupt judges and prosecutors offices there has to be TRUTHS not corruption and its definitely time to drain the swamp of people in power that continue to do the wrong thing, so as soon as accountability is a priority in every community, only then can we will have a better America I filed the best i could in lewis county washington listed under case #18-2-0039221 in response to 6Z327977 and 6Z327978 (16C3587) because my appeals attorney cant return a phone call,basically ineffective Judge not interested in truths who restricts defendants access to evidence and records defense counsel unable to object or request evidence even after showing him forms i filled out representing myself prior to get the evidence and providing it to him and he does this for a living? Failed to compel every defense witness and failed to cross examine states witnesses and failed to provide any evidence for the defense when there was 1000’s of defense exhibits defense counsel ignored, which proved the people involved holding power of office and other corrupt community members with malice and intent created several false statements and by their unclean hands staged and systematically trespassed(clearly posted no trespassing for any reason)harassed, injured and destroyed property and legally prescribed hippotherapy horses guide dogs and companion cats for someone else’s benefit so if you see or are riding one of the 10 plus Jenkins horses illegally seized I know for a fact anyone with a brain could clearly see that all the horses were in great condition and some over weight with huge girth stores of fat and just because you run them around and flood the fields getting them muddy and shave here and shave there and apply unknown substances, inject unknown substances into every horse right in front of you, dump trash throw lumber in the horse stalls, watch your Silver star pony that was suppose to be rescued was completely buried and severely injured with a shovel by a code enforcement guy(in which law enforcement allowed it to happen including all the hair coat alterations by several known and several unidentified people and I have no respect for smokey, eastman, affledft,hornberg, teitzel, gillion,godbey,breen,Schelct,Stall,Spahn,Rubin, prosser, brown, neighbor browns and defense counsel brown, meagher, BUzzard and a jury who didn’t have time to learn the truth, you all allowed illegal activities to prevail for your benefit ignoring the massive amounts of evidence multiple rights of disabled jennifer rainey willow skyler and hunter’s rights repeatedly) and a unburied dead horse the neighbor Wells trespassed and unburied, tire and heavy equipment tracks in the field near the flat bed leading up to the huge hole in the front yard and to the 4 locations where in total were 32, 1200 lb bales of hay that were on the property before leaving to Odessa’s Iron Man competition including stealing 500 lbs of corn and Tina Miller Wood who was hired to feed and water the horses and she failed to report to law enforcement the destruction flooding,throwing of lumber in the stalls and theft because she was in on, plus a 1200lb bale of oat hay and 6 local grass hay bales from ALidia Godfrey was bought to the property and all the portable shelters were torn down a third time in a matter of weeks, plus after the seizure gutters were torn down, toilet paper paper towels, dish soap,credit cards and 5,000.00 in cash stolen, plus prior to all this happening the video camera watching the horses was removed from the house in which law enforcement did nothing yet.and fails to do so.and my daughter Rainey thinks Breen is going to help as she wrote him several times and provided a copy of the lawsuit filed against Tina MIller Wood and served by Alishia Shroeder and provided it to dana the district court clerk with this lawsuit and papers to proceed in forma papris and requests for evidence and multiple subponeas of defense witnesses to sign and send out in case 6Z327977 and 6Z327978 (16C3587) and these were never signed or sent out nor was the lawsuit presented to a judge and are no where can it be found, plus I gave permission to resue the silver star pony only, I never gave anyone premission to alter my horses and property!!!!!! WTF is going on I cant believe how messed up people can really be … Its a shame that the actual facts of the corruption running wild in lewis county washington that the Jenkins family has endured for the last 15 years cant be rightfully exposed because the counties afraid of what i will do with it the evidence if I ever get it and any attorney that’s interested pro-bono in helping please and also willing to volunteer and learn and help I am speech impaired and need a voice box and knowledgeable representation thats interested in protecting my families rights and getting a damages award for us please call me 360-978-5562 I need help
Jenkins got a big silver pan and watered this horse and used it to clean her with water
to all the drive bys horses wore blankets most of the time second if you were so concerned where are your pictures proving what you say?
hey rose and anna blang what did you do wrong? go to horsewildlegal at the face book
those that said hateful things you were on in on gunning for a free pony trained by the best and horses of the best conformation and movement yo anna blang check out my facebook horsewildlegal go tell your lies somewhere else the horses always got feed and care.and if you were so concerned where are your damn pictures proving they looked skinny? not just muddy horses that have had their hair coats altered? horses love to roll in dirt and mud and after all the reports where is the picture evidence over the last 15 years that actually shows the horses were a 0 and or a 1 not to mention no current weight and hands tall on seizure I have watched enough animal cops and Lewis county failed miserably in this incident and all the prior incidents where Jenkins was taken advantage by the vary people that gave oath to serve and protect !
“Lewis counties motto should be by hearsay and harassing that’s hows we get it done !” because we have to cover something else up
Nothing of significance will happen here. A modest fine and time served. Everyone will be in an uproar at first, and forget in a week. Only to remember once in a while and say hey! I remember that! Only to forget once more.
This is typical white trash behavior. All hill people live on another planet. Know how dogs and cats get stupid and feral after many years of inbreeding? Same goes for these Homosapien.
Ms. Jenkins; all you have to say in response to all of this, is that a pinch test wasn’t done and the horses weren’t dehydrated?! Lady you obviously missed the whole reason for the charges and the horses being taken away! Obviously to you it’s clear as mud! Pun intended, the horses were trudging through mud and shit and one of them was stuck on it’s side in it for God knows how long! Not to mention, all of the numerous sightings and reports of deplorable conditions they were in for way too long! The infections and disease and clear malnutrition apparent to the naked eye! I’d hate to see what you
consider bad conditions and environment for a horse. Do yourself a favor and get some mental help! Do you not realize that you’re the only one out of hundreds if not more people that think there’s nothing wrong here? That alone should be your clue! To think that you have kids in your home as well, just sickens me! Just a matter of time before they’re rescued too! It sickens me to even begin to think what kind of conditions they’re living in behind closed doors! I hope and pray you’ll be held accountable to the fullest and that justice will be served for those poor animals. Let’s put you out in those conditions and see how you do!
So glad horses were saved, but my other concern is for the 3 young children that are in her care, living in the same squaller, being neglected and abused also. CPS hstable and has other issues. Why did the horse become more important than these 3 Lil lives. Once again the system has failed. I hope she gets the max. then maybe CPS will HAVE to do something.
And the other thing, they rescued the horse and left 3 young children there in her care. And they as well live in squaller, are neglected and abused. I hope she gets the max.punishment so CPS will have to come and will finally take kids. Sad how animal rescue can save the horse but CPS can’t do anything about the kids. This woman is not stable and had a slue of issue outside of animal abuse and neglect no living creature should ever be in her care.
I drove by this house at least twice a day when going to work every time the horses were in knee high mud and covered in it sickens me how some one could treat animals this way hope she gets full discipline for her actions.
The counties claim my horses had no water is un true if everyone was on the Ball….(a professional and a personal animal lover)……. a simple pinch test of the neck would either prove or disprove if they were properly hydrated and should be taught to Sheriffs personnel amongst other things so the people the community who pay these peoples salaries can be accountable to the people they serve. My daughter and i personally pinched tested each horse and the skin snapped right back into place, just for the uneducated if the horse was water starved the pinch test skin site would have stuck together and a wrinkle would have clearly been seen…….I wonder if anyone on scene noticed
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She should be set free. Horses are just stupid animals. They should make glue and violin parts out of them. A person should nit be punished for how they treat THEIR PROPERTY. the horses belong to her, so she should be able to treat them how she so desires. They’re just dumb animals. People have domain over this Earth. Should not be punished for that.
Ms. Jenkins, I admire your attempt to defend your mom but lets be honest here. The truth is these horses were not being cared for. They were suffering from malnourishment, dehydration, parasites, and fungus. Their body scores were 1 to 2 out of 9. They were being fed substandard feed and were not being provided any water. Yes, all horse owners suffer from mud, but we also provide a large enough pasture for our livestock to get out of the mud. The barn that these horses had access to was deep in manure and had many nails protruding from the walls. The pasture was full of garbage and had many hazards including a decomposing carcass of a horse. These horses are low quality, below breed standard animals. Why would Ms. Hornberg choose them if she was just in it for a financial profit? Why wouldn’t she go after horse owners with high quality, healthy horses? And why, if she was doing something shady would she risk exposing herself by asking for help from the state vet? Your mother needs to accept responsibility for her actions and until she does she shouldn’t be allowed to care for any living being, human or animal.
I don’t get the feeling Skyler is going to listen to anyone who doesn’t say that he and his mother are blameless. We all know people to whom everything that goes wrong in their lives is “someone else’s fault” and these two are Exhibits 1 and 1a. Maybe they even believe it.
Skylar, you are off your rocker.
Your mother is a disgusting person with mental issues. Stick up for her all you want – we all know what’s really going on. Nobody wants your backyard horses to make money. They want to see them NOT SUFFERING.
Skyler, seriously, shut the fuck up. Your mother is a hoarder, and is neglectful of her horses. You BOTH should be hung high for the treatment those poor animals have had to endure. Yes, just about everyone has mud this time of year. But only YOUR MOTHER allowed a malnourished horse to become half buried in it! You and she make me want to vomit.
I can understand a son’s loyalty to his mother, but trying to make it everybody else’s fault doesn’t cut it. I’m sure the truth will come out – either at Jenkins’ trial or before.
As far as Jenkins owning over 40 acres, I don’t know where those other 38 acres are, but those horses most definitely were NOT on them. They were on a very small property – property way too small for nine horses – and were even on times on the porch of the house. That it something I know I have seen for myself.
As far as talking to Jenkins, as I noted before, I did that the day after I put one of the horses back in after it had been on the highway. She pretty much accused me of lying about the horse even being out. How do you talk to someone like that?
Anyway, I believe there is a lot more to this story that has yet to be released.
attention all just to clarify. the horse that got stuck in the mud is only one of the horses! they did not take any pictures of the other horses because they are all healthy and well fed with a little rain rot plus some mud! if you have any questions for my mother or me purchasing feed for the horses you can contact Fire mt farms, Alidea Godfree, the farm store, Del’s feed store in Morton, and cenex co-op in Marysville as well as cenex co-op in Snohomish! i have personally driven up and down state route 508 multiple times and every single persons property out there in lewis county has mud with live stock on premises! so i dont know what ya’ll are trying to do here except slander and belittle my mother over a horse getting stuck in the mud is childish! also to clarify that my mothers property is indefinitely bigger than 2 acres she actually has legal documents, surveys, and papers proving she owns around 40.391 acres currently held up in appeals court! to the people who drive by and call in complaints why dont you stop by and actually talk to my mother instead of being a bunch of brown nosers like were in fucking high school using the police as a tool! i want to thank the volunteers, and Onalaska fire department for helping my mother and the one horse that got stuck in the mud! my mother plead not guilty because she obviously takes care of the horses properly and her Vetrinarian from Cascade West looked over the horse before they were taken after Alisha Hornberg heard Jenkins and her vet discussing antibiotics and Hornberg assumed that all the horses were sick due to just over hearing antibiotics! Which caused Hornberg to call WA State vet to over ride Jenkins vet and get all of the horses removed from the property and be auctioned off at the local livestock barn so she can purchase the horses for herself to breed and sell them for profit after us Jenkins put in hard work and money for the horses. to the little knowledge Hornberg knows but my mother has all the legal papers for the horses, so if anyone tries to sell or buy these horses you will be tampering with stolen property! Hornberg being the jealous type and the thief she is due to stealing one of our horses by the name frosty for her own personal gain and pleasure last year Febuary 2015! now for some reason Hornberg has it in for my mom and is trying to take all the horses from my mother so she can resell and make money! Rescue operation turned into a fiasco! people have been harassing my mother and all of her horses for the last 13yrs cutting the horses up and shooting our horses by locals in Onalaska and the lewis county sheriff department hasnt done a damn thing about it! now tell me why they havent caught anyone yet unless they are in on it as well! thank you all and have a wonderful day!
Anna-You drove by this all the time and never thought of calling and filing a complaint, but you know that complaints were made several times? And how many more people have drove by and seen this same thing?
She should just get into four-wheeling, she got plenty of mud…
So, rather than acknowledging that she had way too many horses to care for them all adequately, she is going to blame others for not coming and helping her? WOW!
My heart breaks for all those horses, and for any and all horses that she has had in the past. I doubt we will ever know the full extent of the damage this woman has done – not just to the nine that have been accounted for but for any others she has had in her possession whose whereabouts are unknown.
My one big consolation is knowing that she will likely never, ever be able to have anything to do with horses ever again.
Myself and my family travel 508 all the time, we have watched those poor horses and prayed that someone would step in and take them out of that mud. The only time there was no mud, was in the summer and then the horses where standing in direct sun, with no shade at all. I know there has been complaints made several times about the condition the horses where in and it seemed nothing was being done. I am so glad that finally the horses will get the care they should have had.
Wow! She thinks she did nothing wrong! Outlandish!