A 54-year-old eastern Ontario woman has been handed a six-month conditional sentence for her part in the disappearance of some quarantined sheep.
Suzanne Atkinson of Warkworth pleaded guilty in Peterborough, Ont., court in December to transporting or causing to transport an animal under quarantine.
Atkinson was also ordered at sentencing this week to perform 100 hours of community service, and was put on 12 months probation.
Atkinson and three others were charged by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency after 31 rare Shropshire sheep disappeared from a quarantined farm in the Hastings, Ont., area in April 2012.
The farm was suspected of being contaminated with scrapie, a fatal neurological disease of sheep and goats. The animals were eventually found at another farm and euthanized.
The trial of 56-year-old farm owner Linda Jones, 60-year-old Michael Schmidt of Durham, Ont., and Roger Pinnell, 48, of West Grey Township, Ont., is to resume on Tuesday.
(CJOJ)
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