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Man with dead horses on farm faces new animal cruelty charges

Brandon Fulton was charged with animal cruelty in July 2016 after Fulton County animal services found four dead and three malnourished horses on his property. (Credit: Channel 2 Action News)

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Brandon Fulton was charged with animal cruelty in July 2016 after Fulton County animal services found four dead and three malnourished horses on his property. (Credit: Channel 2 Action News)
By Ellen Eldridge
Feb 17, 2017

Fulton County animal service officials found four dead horses on Brandon Fulton’s farm last July.

MORE: Farm owner arrested after police find 3 dead horses

Brandon Fulton (Credit: Fulton County Sheriff’s Office)
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Several other horses were found malnourished and roaming about the property in deplorable conditions, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported.

Fulton was charged with aggravated animal cruelty, but that didn’t stop him from getting more horses, Karen Hirsch, a spokeswoman for LifeLine Animal Project said Thursday.

On Monday, an officer responded to the farm off Camp Creek and Butner Roads and found new horses, Hirsch said.

“He was charged with four more counts of cruelty after one of our officers responded to an anonymous call saying he was beating his horses,” Hirsch said. “The officer wrote him up for not providing his horses with water.”

VIDEO: Man appears in court after dead, starving horses found on farm

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