Author of the article: Susan Yanagisawa
Publishing date: Feb 22, 2021 • February 22, 2021 • 4 minute read
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Final legal arguments were made via Zoom on Friday at the trial — publicized on social media — of an animal rights activist charged with breaking and entering into a South Frontenac Township mink farm three and a half years ago. Superior Court Justice Julianne Parfett has now reserved her decision on the case, indicating she will deliver her judgment to the parties electronically at an unspecified future date.
Malcolm Klimowicz has pleaded not guilty to the offence, although he’s never denied that he entered the property of Walt and Heather Freeman without permission and in the middle of the night on Aug. 1, 2017. He went there to surreptitiously videotape conditions inside the barns where the Freeman’s mink were being housed, and he posted his video footage on YouTube in early 2018, contending that the animals’ living conditions were unhealthy and their treatment inhumane.