User:Hateless/Pasado

Pasado was a domesticated donkey whose beating deathlead to the strengthening of animal cruelty laws in Washington state. Pasado was a fixture in Bellevue, Washington park, where children could ride the donkey and. On xxx, several young men entered the park and tried to ride Padaso. When the donkey didn't comply, the kids beat the donkey with tree limbs the size of clubs, then hung the donkey by the neck from a nearby tree.

After community outrage when prosecutors decided to charge the perpetrators with a trespassing charge instead of animal cruelty because the latter was a mere misdemeanor, community and animal activists pushed for a new animal cruelty law in the state. The new statute, publically known as Pasado's Law, made it a Class C felony in the state to