Pan American Games dressage team gold medalist Cesar Parra is scheduled to appear in municipal court in New Jersey on April 5 to answer two separate criminal complaints filed by the Hunterdon County SPCA earlier this month, one alleging “torment” and “torture... of a living animal,” the other alleging “overdrive, overwork...abuse of a living animal.”
The accusation came nearly three years after William PFF, a horse he was longeing, fell and struck his head at Parra's Readington, N.J., training facility in June 2009.