It is sad. Why did it come up? Nothing showed up that had anything to do with the poor thing. Anyway, there are lots like that. Unfortunately, the correct ways of raising tortoises has only been around for about five or ten years. I can't remember what the exact amount of years is, but has been mentioned before on here. Luckily, we now have TFO. Hopefully eventually the info on here, will get to the rest of the world.
The correct way has always been around, it's just that some folks have not used the correct ways or live in places where they needed to do more then they did to make the habitat more correct.