Jessica Long and her 11-year-old daughter won a $300,000 settlement after Shasta County sheriff's deputies seized their pet goat named Cedar in 2022.

Shasta County will pay a partial six-figure settlement to the family of the girl who owned Cedar the goat, two years after Shasta deputies seized the animal for slaughter after she pulled the goat out of a fair auction triggering tears,

Jessica Long and her daughter sued Shasta County, California, officials in 2022 after sheriff’s deputies seized the girl’s goat, Cedar, who was later killed.

California sheriff’s deputies have been forced to pay a girl’s family $300,000 after taking her pet goat and sending it to slaughter. Jessica Long purchased the goat, named Cedar, in 2022 for her daughter who was enrolled in a youth development program in California.

She] loved Cedar and the thought of him going to slaughter was something she could not bear. While sobbing in his pen beside him, [she] communicated to her mother she didn’t want Cedar to go to slaughter.