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Article Archive > Farmingdale woman pleads guilty to abandoning dog Farmingdale woman pleads guilty to abandoning dog Officially, the case of Scamp, the missing Jack Russell terrier, ended Monday night when a woman pleaded guilty in Municipal Court to the abandonment of a domesticated animal. With that, Kristina Paradise, 21, of 16 Maple Ave., Farmingdale, was slapped with a $1,000 fine, and the police and the courts closed their books on the case. Left unanswered was what happened to Scamp and why Paradise would have told a state park ranger who found the wandering animal last March that it was hers. Despite a reward offer from the dog's actual owner and a search by police and animal control officers, the dog was never seen again. Paradise told investigators the dog chased after a cat and vanished shortly after she claimed him on March 15, said Victor "Buddy" Amato, the chief of police for the Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, who filed the charge against Paradise. The State Police considered a theft charge in the case, Amato said, but it wasn't pursued. There was also a history between Scamp and Paradise, he said. "About four years earlier, the dog killed Paradise's cat," Amato said. "They went to court and got an order that the dog wasn't supposed to be running free, but it kept getting out."
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