NAME: Pauline Ruth Winbush, 52 & boyfriend Kevin Ray Williams, 50 WHERE: PALMDALE, CALIFORNIA Please sign this petition in support of animal rights, as well as to send a clear, strong message to Pauline Winbush and Kevin Ray Williams that this type of behavior is intolerable, and ask the Honorable Judge Eric Harmon to consider the facts when weighing evidence in this case. Let the District Attorney and Deputy DA Lyle Riggs know that we support their prosecution in these heinous crimes. Pauline Winbush is a Palmdale School District administrator charged with dog fighting, animal cruelty, child abuse - A total of 19 pit bulls were recovered from her home and had to be euthanized, and some of the dogs showed signs of being used for dog fighting. An assistant superintendent at the Palmdale School District pleaded not guilty to more than two dozen charges, including dog fighting, animal cruelty and child abuse, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced. Pauline Ruth Winbush, 52, and her boyfriend Kevin Ray Williams, 50, face four felony counts of dog fighting, 17 felony counts of cruelty to an animal and one felony count of child abuse, according to Deputy District Attorney Lyle Riggs. According to the prosecutor, animal control officers discovered numerous animals when authorities searched the couple’s Antelope Acres home. Among the animals were dogs that were allegedly kept inside crates filled with feces, and urine stored inside the house where the couple and a minor lived, the prosecutor added. A total of 19 pit bulls were recovered from the home and had to be euthanized, Riggs said, and some of the dogs showed signs of being used for dog fighting. After pleading not guilty to all charges, Winbush is scheduled for a pre-trial hearing on February 19, 2016. Her bail was set at $250,000. The prosecutor is recommending $440,000 bail for Williams. If convicted of all charges, Winbush and Williams face a possible maximum sentence of 13 years in state prison. The case remains under investigation by the County of Los Angeles Department of Animal Care and Control and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.