Battle Mountain animal cruelty case going to court

BATTLE MOUNTAIN - A Nevada woman is scheduled to be arraigned on 42 counts of animal cruelty next month in a case state agriculture inspectors say is one of the worst they can remember.

Jan Lemley of Battle Mountain faces a $1,000 civil fine for each count after Lander County sheriff's deputies found more than 100 barnyard animals being neglected earlier this month, including more than a half dozen that died.

The dead included two out of the more than 30 starving horses that a neighbor described as "walking skeletons." Agriculture officials say at least one goat died from ingesting wool it ate off a sheep carcass.

Lemley is scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 1 in Argenta Justice Court in Battle Mountain.

Information from: The Humboldt Sun, http://www.humboldtsun.com