Tomo the sea lion caused quite a stir when she showed up in front of the Catholic church in Tomales last week, far from the ocean. After a valiant rescue by the Marine Mammal Center and a ragtag team of townsfolk, her story was supposed to have a happy ending.
It didn’t.
She was discovered last Monday morning, sunning herself on a concrete wall in front of the Church of the Assumption rectory, five feet…