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Miriam Smith told officers she killed the female pit bull named Diamond because it was a 'devil dog'
Miriam Smith told officers she killed the female pit bull named Diamond because it was a 'devil dog'
Animal control officers said that 65-year-old Miriam Smith told them she killed a female dog named Diamond because it was a 'devil dog' and she worried it could harm neighbourhood children.
Smith's nephew left the one-year-old animal at the home he shared with his aunt during the recent winter weather while he went away.
When he returned, he could find no trace of the dog and assumed she had broken the chain where she was usually tied at the front porch of the house.
An environmental enforcement officer came across the dog's body under a mound of dried grass, stinking of kerosene.
The dog had an orange extension cord wrapped tightly around its neck and its body was partially burned.
Authorities said bail was not immediately set for Smith, who remains jailed in Spartanburg County, South Carolina after her weekend arrest.
Smith is charged with ill treatment of animals in general, torture, according to an arrest warrant.
She faces 180 days to five years in prison if convicted.
Officials said she did not have a lawyer yet.
of all I don't like pitbulls. Secondly, coming home from work one day, a puppy we had ate my shoes. I got so irritated, that if I didn't know how dogs behave I would certainly had punished the dog in some way but I kept my cool, if screaming is keeping cool. Anyway, don't forget that dogs are basically domesticated wolves.