Act of Kindness Repaid by Threat of Arrest at Grace Foundation

“This thing would make a great movie,” said Beth DeCaprio, the founder and executive director of the Grace Foundation, located off Latrobe Road at the far-south end of El Dorado Hills.

She’s the leading lady in the drama that unfolded at the El Dorado Hills nonprofit garnering national attention by rescuing 56 horses from a squalid Susanville ranch in 2011.

The foundation has since spent $1.13 million, by her calculation, rehabilitating 43 of the survivors, and has failed to gain more than token compensation from those responsible.

Every leading lady needs critics and DeCaprio has plenty. They accuse her not only of overacting, but of overstating the rehabilitation expenses and using the horses as a fundraising tool.

The script jumps genres, starting with horror. A grizzly video on the foundation Website captures conditions at the derelict Whispering Pines Ranch when Grace volunteers arrived in April 2011. Dead horses litter the ground. Half-starved horses roam the ranch freely, with others confined to paddocks piled high in feces.

Ranch owner Dwight Bennett was ...

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