No evidence of cruelty or criminal negligence, AG says
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Dianna Hunt
Louisiana Attorney General James “Buddy” Caldwell has declined to investigate the death of a research chimpanzee headed to the New Iberia Research Center, saying investigators found no evidence of criminal negligence by the Opelousas company that was transporting the animal when he died.
In a letter dated April 19, Caldwell notified the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine that the 8-year-old chimp, named Chaos, did not appear to die as a result of cruelty or neglect, based on a review of documents from a federal investigation into the death.
“While you have proposed a plausible theory that dehydration may have been one factor in the death of Chaos, there is not sufficient evidence to prove this theory,” Caldwell said in the letter.
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