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LEX 18 has learned a woman at the center of a Casey County animal cruelty case used to live here in Fayette County and has been accused of problems with animals in the past.

They are the faces of hope. They are worn. They need some care, but before they know it the rescued dogs from Cheryl Turner's Casey County home will have a new life.

The Lexington Humane Society will be a temporary home for the 40 animals. Workers are figuring out their ages and breeds and preparing them for vaccinations.

Sunday rescuers raided Turner's home where she kept at least 100 dogs many with mange. Twelve were found dead in a freezer.

"Oh my gosh. That's awful," says Natasha Chapman who was concerned when she realized Turner and her dogs used to be her neighbor on Halifax Drive. "You hardly even see the lady. She never walked them or anything like that."

Turner was well known to animal control when she lived in Lexington. "We've had her in violation on different things that's issued citation starting back in 2005," says Chief Nathan Bowling. According to those complaints when she lived in her home here in 2008 she had at least 40 dogs.

"You would smell the ammonia smell from the urination and the feces," says Chapman.

Animal Control says she would pay her fines, get in compliance, until the next complaint, but they say there was nothing they could do but continually cite her because there is no habitual offender law.

"What we do is we slow them down with the charges and try to get them educated," says Chief Bowling.

So even though these dogs have been rescued from Turner, there's no law that can stop her from collecting another 100 dogs again.