Woman Gets Community Service for Abusing Dog
A judge has sentenced a Beverly Hills woman to perform 150 hours of community service for leaving her Lhasa apso locked in her car while she went into a West Hollywood bank on a day of 100-degree heat last September.
The sentence, handed down Wednesday by Municipal Court Judge Judith Stein, came after Cynthia Biniewicz Boot pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of cruelty to animals. The dog, Maxine, was returned to her owner shortly after the incident, in which sheriff’s deputies broke into the white Mercedes to to make the rescue.
A probation report said that the woman, a former model, was suffering emotional trauma at the time because of the breakup of her marriage, which allegedly included episodes of violence. “I’m a victim of abuse myself so I’m very much against abuse of any type and I want to put it all behind me,” she said after the sentence was imposed.
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