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A Parkland County woman is facing criminal animal cruelty charges after RCMP received reports about malnourished horses on her property.

RCMP Cpl. Chris Warren said Saturday three horses were found dead on the woman’s property after a member of the public reported seeing starving horses there.

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Evansburg RCMP began investigating on Dec. 12, Warren said.

On Friday, police arrested the woman without incident.

Patricia Lynn Moore, 48, is facing three counts of permitting and/or causing unnecessary pain, suffering, or injury to animals.

She was released from custody after a bail hearing and is to appear in Evansburg provincial court Jan. 14.

Warren said the Alberta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is also investigating the horse’s deaths.

In 2012, a woman of the same name was convicted of allowing horses in her care to be in distress under the Animal Protection Act, according to a 2012 news release on the ASPCA website. That Patricia Lynn Moore was prohibited from caring for more than two horses for five years — a condition which expired in February 2017.