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It was raining buckets before dawn when investigators descended Wednesday on the ramshackle compound of trailers and kennels in South Jersey, where authorities say pit bulls were bred to “fight to their deaths.” They found more than a hundred dogs, many wounded and shivering in the cold who nonetheless greeted police and veterinarians “with wagging tails,” state Attorney General Matthew Platkin told reporters at a Friday news conference. “What other hell these dogs endured, I honestly don’t even dare to imagine,” Platkin said, adding they had been “tortured and abused.” Now, alleged ringleader…

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