I don't believe justice has been served. I do not believe this person would ever knowingly have allowed harm to come to those cats. I do not think she should be in the same category as those who knowingly harm or allow harm, or engage in activities such as dog-fighting. This is unreal. Glad she is not in jail though. The justice system has failed.

The justice system does not 'fail'. People fail the justice system. The system is what it is. The people that are part of the justice system do not always live up to their oaths, promises, expectations. That is where things fail, when a member of the justice system has a moral compass go awry.
That said, the case here is simple and has nothing to do with the inadequacies of the justice system. It has to do with the moral compass of a person expected to care for animals that had been failed by their owners.

I was a receiver of 2 ktties from Wydell and in all of her dealings t was very evident she loved those anmals. She knew all of their names. I do not know what happened, but I do know she will grieve over the loss forever. I love my cats more than anything and recognize those that do also.

I have known Wydell for over 30 years. Her love of animals is undying. To paraphrase her, 'she liked animals more than most people'. My family adopted four animals, three cats and a dog. I was in that building on many occasions and never, ever detected anything that was out of place or not clean. The cats were all bathed with frequency and food was not in short supply. Litter was cleaned more than once daily. All incoming cats were tested for communicable diseases and quarantined until their health was cleared to mix with the general population. If they had a communicable disease they were confined to separate areas in a 'community' to themselves so they wouldn't possibly infect the healthy animals. The odor was more like a vets office than a cat sanctuary. Somehow there had to have been a breakdown in communication between Wydell and her employee and the animals were the losers here. What happened was a terrible thing and guilty or not-guilty, Wydell will carry this burden to her grave knowing that the animals that depended on her were failed for what ever reason. She will grieve the loss of "her babies" as she called them until her dying day.