Judge Thomas Donnelly has ruled that Mathew Berry must pay Sarah Manos $100,000, finding that Berry violated the Illinois Human Care for Animals Act.
He also ordered Berry to pay Manos $4,662 for veterinary expenses, $1,450 for the money she spent to buy her dogs, $12,769 for mental health services she received as a result of the ordeal, $5,149 in attorney’s fees and $38,308 for inflicting emotional distress.Berry, 29, of Midlothian, couldn’t be reached after the ruling.
In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times last year, he denied he was abusive to Manos or harmed her dogs.Manos, 28, who teaches in Arlington Heights, says she met Berry in April 2020 through Bumble, the dating app, and that they connected over their interest in dogs. According to Manos, Berry became verbally abusive to her and physically abused her dogs, Daisy and Kirby. In her lawsuit, she accused Berry, a driver for a medical transportation company, of injecting Daisy with medication on May 4, 2020, that made the dog "wobbly." Daisy died later that day.Both dogs were mixes of Shih Tzu and Bichon Frisé.
Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for Foxx, says prosecutors were presented with "insufficient evidence to meet our burden of proof to file felony charges."Simonton says prosecutors with the state’s attorney’s sexual assault/domestic violence division worked with Manos to secure a conviction against Berry for violating an order of protection, and he was sentenced to a year of probation in October 2020.
Sounds like life in prison worthy. Please tell me he was charged criminally
what an awful story story, I don't understand the strange title & repeated mentions that they met on Bumble though