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Judge finds father-son farmers not guilty on all counts in 'cruelty' case

SUNBURY - The father-and-son farmers charged in a private criminal complaint with animal cruelty for treatment of cows on their Irish Valley farm have been found not guilty on all counts. Magisterial District Judge Robert Bolton issued his ruling Friday (11:39AM)

Prosecution credibility questioned

SUNBURY - The credibility of the woman who filed cruelty to animal charges against an Irish Valley dairy farmer and his son came under attack during Thursday's five-hour preliminary hearing.

Defense attorney Roger Wiest II of Sunbury repeatedly claimed Jeannette K. Aderhold, of Snydertown Road, Danville RD 6, a former worker at the farm who filed the private criminal complaint against Lloyd Reitz Sr., owner of Reitz Dairy Farm in Irish Valley, and his son, Andy Reitz, lied during her two-hour testimony and violated a wire-tapping law by videotaping injured cows and calves and unsanitary conditions at the farm without permission from the Reitz family.

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