Rocky case: Owner also hit with animal cruelty charge over dog’s death

KLANG, Aug 20 — The owner of the dog named Rocky has also been charged in the Sessions Court here with cruelty aga...

There doesn’t seem to be much debate over whether 68-year-old Socorro Barrientos repeatedly kicked a steer in the head last year at a backyard rodeo in the far northwest suburbs, which led to an animal cruelty charge against him. Instead, in explaining a not guilty verdict rendered this past week in Barrientos’ case,