Just to help with them RUFF cases..
A new team member has joined the state attorney’s office in Chicago.
A Labrador retriever called Hatty has become the office’s first emotional support dog and was trained partly by inmates.
The two-year-old pooch will work on a 9 to 5 schedule but is being asked to carry out one main role which is to show affection.
Her job is to ease the pressure of criminal proceedings on young children and those with mental health issues who have been victims of assault.
Image: Camille Fine/Chicago Tribune via APShe will have to handle up to 200 cases a year.
Cook County state’s attorney Kim Foxx presided over the swearing-in. Hatty stood on her hind legs over a table and had to place her paw across a law book as an oath was administered.
