Animal Collecting
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:
Camille Hankins, 41, of Chester, South Carolina, was
fined $200 on March 22 for ill-treatment of animals at her Animal Save
no-kill shelter, closed last June through the intervention of PETA and
K. Jones, editor of the Charlotte-based animal newspaper T h e
Animality. Eighty animals were taken from Hankins’ trailer home and
yard, of whom about a dozen were euthanized due to illness. Hankins,
a former PETA volunteer, told ANIMAL PEOPLE she was framed
because of PETA’s opposition to no-kill shelters, after she made the
mistake of asking PETA to help her with adoptions. Responded Jones,
“I testified to the conditions I saw several months before the arrest. I
also testified that I tried to get Hankins to give me some of the animals
so that I could get them to a vet, care for them, and adopt them out. I at
one time offered to take them all. She invited PETA down a few weeks
later. I think the town of Chester gave her a fair and just trial, and had
no problem proving her guilt.”