College football star ‘suspended indefinitely’ over animal abuse investigation
A Missouri State football star was suspended indefinitely after allegedly punching a dog three times and breaking its jaw, according to reports Sunday.
Bears quarterback Breck Ruddick, 20, hit the 42-pound Australian shepherd so hard the pooch, Luca, lost teeth and was rushed to a vet with a shattered jaw, the Daily Mail reported.
The player was suspended Friday for “conduct detrimental to the team” just hours after a Facebook post detailing the attack emerged, the paper reported.
The player lost his cool, punched the dog and let him “run off, all alone and bleeding profusely,” Shelby Filbeck, a friend of the dog’s owner, Katie Riggs, wrote in a Facebook post Friday afternoon.
Riggs “spent the whole night looking for her dog,” Filbeck said, according to the Daily Mail.
On Saturday, the college said the suspension was linked to the animal abuse allegations. Reddick won’t play again “until the situation is resolved,” said athletic director Kyle Moats.
“It’s obviously very serious. Not only athletics, but the entire university takes it very seriously,” Moats said Saturday night.
“That’s why there will be an internal investigation conducted by our Student Conduct office. We’ll take it from there once we find out what the findings are,” he said.
Despite the alleged attack, Ruddick traveled with the team to its game against Kansas State on Saturday, USA Today reported.
The Facebook post detailing the violent attack claims the dog needed surgery.
“He was then rushed over to the vet where they found that his jaw had been broken and he would need surgery,” Filbeck wrote.
She added, “The next day Luca went in for surgery where it was found that his jaw bones were shattered (not just broken), he had to have 6 teeth pulled, which will be permanently gone forever and they had to keep him at the vets for two days instead of one.”
The school’s Office of Student Conduct has launched investigation and the findings will be turned over to the athletic department for team discipline, USA today reported.
“We want to make sure it’s thorough and we do it right, and however long that takes,” Moats said.
This is not my dog, but this story deserves to be heard. Earlier this week one of my close friends left her adorable sweet loving dog with Breck Ruddick. This was someone she trusted, this was a guy who has watched her dog before and who she has spent a good amount of time with as friends. She never thought leaving her 42 pound Australian Shepherd with Breck, a 200+ pound MSU football player, would lead to this. Never once did she, nor anyone else for that matter, believe that Breck could get so upset with this sweet dog that he would hit him in the jaw, not just once but three times. After "loosing his cool" and hitting poor Luca he led him outside and let him run off, all alone and bleeding profusely. Breck told Katie that "Luca had ran off" leaving out the part about him beating the crap out of Luca. She spent the whole night looking for her dog. The next day a girl saw Katie's post on Facebook and explained that she had found Luca in a parking lot covered in blood. The girl was nice enough to take him home and attempted to clean him up. When he was returned to Katie, the next day, he was STILL bleeding. He was then rushed over to the vet where they found that his jaw had been broken and he would need surgery. The next day Luca went in for surgery where it was found that his jaw bones were shattered (not just broken), he had to have 6 teeth pulled, which will be permanently gone forever and they had to keep him at the vets for two days instead of one. He can no longer eat solid food and will have to be on an oatmeal based diet. That's when the vet explained to Katie that Luca had to have been hit more than once, with literally all of Breck's force or with some other object, because the trauma was so extensive it could not have been from one single punch.
This story makes me sick to my stomach, I love my own dog more than anything in the world and I can't even imagine what Katie is going through. No animal deserves to be treated this way, and no human should be capable of hurting a defenseless animal to this extent. Breck was careless
and insensitive. He needs help and his actions need to be accounted for. The pictures below show how much pain Luca has went through and how his life will be forever altered by one heartless person. Please pray for this sweet dog and his owner.
http://nypost.com/2016/09/25/missouri-state-quarterback-suspended-indefinitely-over-animal-abuse-investigation/
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