Robert Everett Keck will serve two years in prison after pleading guilty to felony charges of animal cruelty. The Saline County prosecutor’s office says it’s one of the first prison sentences handed down since the animal cruelty bill passed in 2009. Keck was charged after police and humane society workers responded to calls from neighbors and found four horses and five dogs that had been severely neglected.

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