Woman sentenced for animal cruelty

BILLINGS — A Bridger-area woman who violated a requirement she not own any animals as conditions set in an animal cruelty case has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The Billings Gazette reports that Teresa Martin was sentenced Friday in Carbon County District Court. Thirteen years of the sentence were suspended.

Martin and her husband, Jack Martin, pleaded no contest in 2011 to 26 counts of felony aggravated animal cruelty after seven dead horses and numerous starving horses were found on their property.