An Oregon woman obsessed with rabbits has been returned to prison after police found her in a hotel room with more than a dozen bunnies.
Miriam Sakewitz, 47, violated her probation by having the rabbits, Judge Gayle Nachtigal, of the Washington County Circuit court ruled on Thursday. The judge sentenced Sakewitz to 90 days in the county jail.
Police arrested Sakewitz on June 16 after she called a maintenance worker to her room in the Portland suburb of Tigard to fix a broken television set.
The worker saw and smelled the rabbits, some of them hopping freely around the house.
The woman's legal problems began in 2006, when police found more than 150 rabbits in her home and dozens more bunny bodies in freezers. She was arrested on accusations of animal neglect. After pleading no contest, she was placed on five years' probation, with the condition that she stay away from rabbits.
Jim Wolf, a spokesman for Tigard Police, said Washington County animal control officers removed eight adult rabbits, five young ones and a dead one from the hotel room in the latest incident.
Bob Severe, a Washington County probation officer, said Sakewitz had undergone a court-ordered mental evaluation but that no treatment had been
recommended.
Telegraph
