{"id":220591,"date":"2026-05-05T12:53:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220591\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:53:26","slug":"jefferson-co-women-face-felony-animal-cruelty-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220591\/","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson Co. women face felony animal cruelty charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOWN OF HENDERSON, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Two Jefferson County women face animal cruelty charges following the death of a dog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The county sheriff\u2019s office announced on Monday that they arrested Jenna Ellinger, 41, and Olivia Thompson, 22, in February. Both women are from the town of Henderson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The two were charged with felony counts of aggravated cruelty to animals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to court documents, Ellinger and Thompson, \u201cwith no justifiable purpose, caused serious physical injury which resulted in the death of a 1 year old German shepherd in a depraved and sadistic manner by failing to provide sustenance and medical treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The two appeared in Henderson Town Court on Monday. The case was sent to Jefferson County Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">7 News reached out to the sheriff\u2019s office for more information. We\u2019ll update this story if we hear back.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOWN OF HENDERSON, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Two Jefferson County women face animal cruelty charges following the death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6343,101,86864,86862,9,11,10,49,51,50,86863],"class_list":["post-220591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-arrest","tag-jefferson-county-sheriffs-office","tag-jenna-ellinger","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-olivia-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}