Andrea Rosebrock 
Bobby Loggins, who last summer, punched his five-month-old American Bulldog 30 times in the face – killing it, has been convicted of Animal Torture. In Iowa, Animal Torture is an aggravated misdemeanor that carries a sentence of up to two years in prison. Just this past Friday, Judge Gary E. Wenell sentenced Bobby Loggins to 365 days in jail but suspended 335 days of that sentence and credited Loggins for time already served. He only spends 30 days in jail.
Trust me, if I was to post what I initially wrote about this sentence, Deanna would fire me in a heartbeat. The sentence this judge handed down to this knuckledragger, Bobby Loggins, is a complete joke. Get this. Here is the Judge’s reasoning for giving the light sentence:
“The dog was his own. It was not some valuable fancy show dog belonging to another. It was not a neighbor boy’s dog, it was not an elderly person’s companion…We do not have a statewide problem with this kind of crime.”
Whoa…whoa…wait a minute…because he owned the animal it it’s OK to give him a light sentence? Because Sire was not some valuable fancy show dog and because it was not the neighbor boy’s or an elderly person’s companion he shouldn’t have to face much jail time?
And he thinks there is no statewide problem with this kind of crime? Well golly gee Your Honor, you sure as hell will have a statewide problem now!
And of course, Loggins’ wife, Rochelle, boohooed it to the court. She described her husband as a “very good” father and said he did not have a history of domestic violence or abuse in the home. The loss of her husband’s income, if he were incarcerated, would create a hardship for her and the couple’s two children, ages 5 and 10.
No abuse in the home? He beat a puppy to death. Hate to see what she considers real abuse. At the trial, Loggins’ friend Chad Peterson testified…
…that on June 9 he drank beer and smoked marijuana with Loggins while fishing on the Missouri River. Later that day at Loggins’ home, Peterson said, he saw Loggins feed the puppy, Sire, “bowl after bowl of beer.” When the puppy urinated on the dining room carpet, Peterson said, he saw Loggins straddle it, put his arm around it and punch it more than 10 times in the head. Loggins then picked the puppy up by its tail and ears and took it outside through a back door.
Peterson testified that when Loggins brought the puppy back inside the house and set it on the kitchen floor, it couldn’t walk and was bleeding. “To me it looked like the dog was paralyzed,” he said. “He was shaking. It looked like convulsions. He was coughing up blood.”
While Peterson knelt down next to the puppy and tried to comfort it, he said, Loggins stood there and showed no remorse for what had happened. Peterson said he confronted Loggins about his reaction and that Loggins shoved him into a chair and told him to leave.
Let’s see, this good father was also charged with false reporting after he told police the dog had just been hit by a car. Then he changed his story to the police – he accidentally
slammed the dog’s head in the door.
Oh, and according to court records in Woodbury County, Bobby Loggins has 25 cases for driving violations or drugs. The latest case for animal torture brings the total to date to 26 cases. Most of these are driving violations but what’s troubling is that Bobby Loggins has been labeled a “habitual offender” by consistently driving while his license was suspended/revoked. Keywords here: Habitual Offender.
Bobby Loggins is a ticking time bomb. And Rochelle Loggins is obviously a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
In addition to jail time, Loggins must pay a $625 fine and $300 to the Iowa Department of Corrections. He will also reimburse the Woodbury County Jail $50 for each day he is incarcerated. Loggins is required to undergo substance abuse counseling and a psychological evaluation. Loggins will be on probation for 18 months upon his release.
Should anyone wish to let the Judge know their thoughts, your firm but respectful letters can be sent to:
Leesa McNeil
District Court Administrator
Woodbury County Courthouse
7th and Douglas, Room 210
Sioux City, IA 51101
Iowa…you have a problem. In fact, it looks like you have several problems.
Obviously this judge has his head in the sand and is totally bored with his job…kick his ass out !! this beautiful puppy did nothing to deserve this horrific cruelty and another puppy will certainly be abused by this scumbag…he should be thrown in the worst prisona and left there to rot. I sure hope another prisoner gets him while he’s spending his 30 days….I’m ashamed that he breaths the same air as I do…this is why our justice doesn’t work..up here in Canada too ! The judges simply have no compasion for animals…they disgust me.
What a joke, the Judge should be brought up on charges himself.
I will be writing a letter to this asshole. And yes I promise to be nice.
piece of sh##..i wish one day before i die that i had the rights to do what this guy did to that puppy..to him…on anyone who does this type of thing,,,sick of people getting away with this type of thing….and i wonder why i dont believe in our justice system
This pathetic excuse for a human being should have gotten the maximum penalty allowed under law. Fortunately for him, the judge in this case is a pathetic excuse for a person supposed to uphold the law. Absolutely terrible on both counts. I will say this, I would love to personally go down there and punch him 30 times in the head and see how he likes it. What a big tough guy…..
No not 30 times. What we have to do here is take this baby puppies weight and then this POS’s weight so if the puppy weighed 5 lbs. then for every 5 lbs this SOB gets 30 bangs to his putrid head.
When I say I would like to knock his teeth out , I mean it .It seems the more I read the worse I get , I follow these verdicts and they are never right .This is where the locals should take things into their own hands , he needs a beating
i SO agree, Terry. i’m getting the same way. i’d love 2 punch this pondscum’s lights out…..n the Judge~Judge Gary E. Wenell….u r an EFFING moron. u SHOULD NOT B ON THE BENCH. i don’t think u have any idea what u’re doing.
O DEAR GOD………WHEN R ALL THESE HORRORS GONNA STOP???
check out Bobby’s record at: http://www.iowacourts.state.ia.us/ESAWebApp/TrialSimpFrame
Type in Loggins for last name
Type in Bob for first name
Select Woodbury for county
Click on search (off to the right side of page)
See for yourself what a dirtbag he is.
How revolting and utterly disgusting that trash like Bobby Loggins isn’t lawfully punished. Obviously an inept judge who is unable to determine a credible threat to society and lacking compassion for a helpless creature needs to be removed from his position immediately and I plan to email the governor of Iowa to demand the immediate removal of this judge and I ask all of you animal lovers to do the same.
Lets all go and beat the s**t out of this guy and the judge to for he is just as big of pos as this guy. I have my pillowcase full of soap ready to go give this guy what he needs,a good old fashioned ass kicking. People like this make me sick,I mean anyone with a brain in their head (which he doesn’t have) would know not to ever give any animal any beer or anything else that could be harmeful to the animal in any way. A person that has a puppy or dog inside knows that sometime or another that the poor thing needs to be let outside to go potty and if you’r going to be an idiot like this guy and not let the dog out to potty he will more than likely go potty in the house, not because he wants to but because he can’t let himself out and then he gets beat to death because the guy is to sorry and lazy to let him out, he is also in the running for number one pos for 2010.
Oh wow Andrea…brought a good one to light girl. I’m sure you know about the island I speak so often of. QUIT testing on animals! Let’s put these POS’s on that island and test all those horrible chemicals, and such on these pond scum. Give us a more accurate reading of what these products would do to humans than testing on our sweet animals. Useless, worthless, waste’s. His kids and wife would be far better off without this horrible roach in their live’s. Poor sweet little Sire. I can only hope the punches were swift and he did not have to suffer too long or too terribly. Poor baby…so very undeserved. I hope the judge never has another peaceful nights sleep after this one….the sicko!
Bobby Loggins, my boy, you walking, talking piece of manure, I hope you make someone a nice “bride” in jail. Let’s see how tough you are, let’s see if you can hold *your* urine, if some inmates or guards decide to punch *you* 30 times or so in the face. That would be only the beginning of real justice for you. You frankly deserve as much mercy and consideration as you gave that little dog who loved and trusted you–*none*.
Let’s all make sure, as much as we lawfully can, that Loggins suffers *lifelong* consequences for his acts–no jobs, no housing, nothing but lifelong ostracism and hatred for this subhuman. *Let Loggins never be allowed to change his name or live down his torture and murder of little Sire.*
As for that idiotic piece of manure in judicial robes known as Gary E. Wenell, it is truly tragic that Iowa does not allow for election or recall of judges. Wenell, by his outrageous remarks, has rendered himself unfit for office and must be summarily removed from office. He is lucky I do not live in Iowa, for if I did, I’d be starting a movement to do exactly that.
Iowans, you thus need to make it clear to Wenell and his ilk that pet abuse indeed *is* a “statewide problem”–and write your state lawmakers to make sure that Wenell faces one of his own in the form of swift impeachment and removal from office.
As with the abuse of a child or one’s significant other, the penalty for harming one’s “own” pet should, if anything, be *much* harsher, not lighter, than that for similar abuse of others. The gross abuse of the special bond of vulnerability and trust demands nothing less. Our laws must make such harsher penalties *mandatory and automatic*. Judges like Wenell clearly show that we cannot trust our judicial system with “discretion” in cases like this.
Part of me, indeed, strongly believes that Loggins’ actions are yet another good reason why, whenever a “human being” is legally found to have tortured and killed a pet, our legal system must make the death penalty for such “people” mandatory and automatic, preferably with the penalty in each case carried out–with painstakingly scientific precision–in public and in the very same way and equivalent suffering and fear that the “person” inflicted upon the animal.
I like you’r thinking
Well as long as we have these kind of so callled judges(CouGH GAG BARF) these SOB’s arent going to get what they really deserve, A Very Ever So Slow Agonising Tortures D~E~A~T~H
Now you are talking The Death Penalty. isn’t used near as much as it should be. The only way to get rid of a epidimic of this kind.
S. Enk………….AWESOME!!!! u certainly have a WAY with words. very well put. THANK U…………
This incident has totally made me sick. It is unbelieveable that a judge could be so heartless. Do you even look at this babies little face. Being drunk is not an excuse. This cruel jerk deserves to be locked up for ever. God help the next animal that is brought into this home. Or his children should he get angry at something the do. Judge you really fell down on your duties this time.
And the so called friends that had to hear this puppy screaming while being beaten are no better.
That no good lousy SOB and that F**Ken judge and that miserable piece of crap called the wife. No value hugh. There was more value in that little puppies toenail than the three of those pethetic pieces of humane garbage put together. I now fully understand the french revolution and the way things are going there is going to be an animal activist revolution. This pethetic excuse for our legal system has about run its course as far as ignorance gos. By turning all these decaying masses of imataion humanes loose they are making themselves a joke. No Value, what a croc. I’ll tell you what had no value. That POS ,The POS’s wife, And The POS judge for making such an ignorant statement. It was a living breathing Feeling creature that got filled up on beer by this SOB and then he beat this baby to death and you let the SOB go. You and all the rest of you so called legal people that keep turning these SOB’s loose should turn in your robes, deploma’s and anything else that says you are qualified to do the job, because you aren’t. You are missing something very important, its called HUMANITY.
S. Enk…….perfect words…thank you. You should run for president!!!
like this sadistic bastard NEEDED 2 punch this wee baby 30 times!!!!!!!! ONE PUNCH WOULD’VE KILLED THIS BABY!!!!!every time i see this slime’s face or read his name i get more n more pissed off at how he’s getting away with this!!!!
What the f……..!!!!! This is a big joke!!!! Just because he owns the dog, he has the right to kill it and be sentenced lightly????? Duh????
Ironically, 3 weeks after Loggins was sentenced, a 1yr old Shi Tzuh was unfairly deemed “Vicious” by the City of Sioux City and sentenced to death for biting someone in self defense. Wiggles, a small family pet is scheduled to be executed soon if nothing is done. If you would like to Support Wiggles you can contact the council members at CCouncil@sioux-city.org. Wiggles could use all your help
Letter to CCouncil@sioux-city.org
I am writting you in defense of Wiggles. It is alarming that an animal must submit to abuse and can not even protect itself against abuse and the humane laws that are on the books are just so much space as most courts only know how to pass out slap on the wrist. Its appalling to say the least. Please put yourself in this little dogs place and visualize what had been done to Wiggles being done to you. Now would you sit there and take it(now keep in mind that you just as many abused have absolutely no recourse legally or otherwise).Now what would you do? Sit and endure the abuse or fight back? I’m perty sure I know the answer. Think about it ,please. This little thing bit in self defense and that should not be a death sentence. Every living creature around wants to live without abuse, a normal happy life. Why would you even compound this poor animals situation by even taking away the right to protect itself? The courts are a mess and don’t do a thing,although thank God some of them are finally stepping up to the plate. Case in point: This disgusting so called humane being( a repeat offender against puppies and kittens) took this little cat(a normal healthy loving creature) he poked its eyes out and then cut off its paws, then threw it in a laundry basket to die. And what defended this innocent victim? Nothing. This humane slime got charged with a misdemeanor. A misdemeanor, are they serious? and if by chance this poor little thing would have managed to get some licks in and gotten away, what would our wonderful civil servants have done upon catching this little thing? I think we all know the answer to that. So again no animal should ever face death because it got the chance to defend itself, so I’m asking you to please reconsider your decission and take into account that it was self defense, please.
BOTH THE C**** NEED A FRIENDLY HOME VISIT
Ohh!! I see, so if someone rapes and beats their own child to death Judge Wenell will give that person a lighter sentence because they don’t have a statewide problem with this kind of crime?
IMO, Wenell should not be a judge.
I think the judge needs to be taken out myself. But I don’t think abuse for abuse, eye for an eye is the way to solve things. What I do think is that we need judges who will hand down harsher sentences and get people to take these things seriously.
hey PS I wonder what will happen while he is in…some of the other inmates may not like him.
This guy should be castrated and stoned by the public, then maybe burned on a stake!
You see these babies are never going to get real justice untill we get animal loving people into the senate, the congress, and any place that holds an election that people can vote in. Get our people into the drivers seat so we can get laws passed and we can take the slap on the wrist out of these spineless no acount judges hands. For this laughingly called judge to suspend this POS’s sentence says all anyone needs to know about that looser. Man I wish I knew back then what I know now. I would have been eating,breathing, and sleeping law to the point that there would be no suspended sentences,and no slaps on the wrist. This is exactly what is wrong with the juditial system and exactly why the crime rate is out of control. Why wouldn’t it be, what have these slim balls got to be afraid of, not jail thats for sure. How can it get anymore F***** Up?
Well there are still lots of dark alleys, one can hope !
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Hey this so called judge doesn’t think there is a problem (although I can’t understand what that has to do with his turning this POS loose)with abusers. We should send his honorable Don’t Know Much, A Bunch Of The Monsterous Criminal Accounts That the rest of us read and see if he can still make such a luediquist comment. Where did this guy get his rbes at a crackerjack box?:(