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Woman guilty 2nd time of neglecting, starving horses in McHenry Co.

A 41-year-old Mount Prospect woman faces up to three years in prison after her conviction Thursday of felony cruelty to animals after four horses were found nearly starved to death during an April 2013 check in McHenry County.

Jamie Koy was on probation at the time after her conviction in 2011 on basically the same set of animal cruelty and neglect charges, prosecutors said.

She will be sentenced June 24 by Judge Sharon Prather and faces anywhere from probation to three years in prison.

During a trial in Woodstock this week, prosecutors showed that McHenry County Animal Control officers made an unannounced wellness check on Koy's horses on April 25, 2013, and found four horses that were extremely malnourished.

The horses were seized and taken to a 24-hour emergency care facility in Madison, Wisconsin.

Prosecutors called expert witnesses who testified the horses were starved nearly to death.

The horses made full recoveries and are now under the care of the Hoofed Animal Humane Society in Woodstock.

Koy's defense attorney, Michael Oppenheimer, could not immediately be reached for comment.

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