An ex-teaching assistant who encouraged a child to take part in 'graphic and perverse animal cruelty at its worst' has been spared jail.
Paris Jade Carding, 28, of Fawley Grove, Wythenshawe, joined her then-boyfriend Grant Leigh Jnr, 30, of the same address, on October 24 2020.
Horrific pictures and videos were later shared on a private Facebook group - 'The Real Terrier Men and Lurcher Men'. They showed dogs kept by the couple - and Leigh's father, Grant Leigh Snr, 52 - savagely attacking badgers and foxes.
These were discovered by a police wildlife crime officer following a tip-off. Grant Snr , who was serving a suspended sentence at the time of the offences, operated as an administrator of the group where he boasted about taking his son badger baiting as a way of celebrating his recent prison release, Tameside magistrates court heard. READ MORE:Three people rushed to hospital after car smashes into tree and bursts into flames A joint investigation by RSPCA and Cheshire Police executed raids on October 26, and found six dogs in squalid conditions at Leigh Snr's house on Marler Road in Hyde, and one at Carding's who all had injuries consistent with hunting activities.
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