South Carolina Woman Tortures, Kills ‘Devil’ Puppy For Chewing Her Bible
Posted by JacobSloan on January 25, 2011
Insanity is alive and well in America. South Carolina’s GoUpstate reports on local faith-based crime:
A 65-year-old Pacolet Mills woman is accused of hanging and burning a 1-year-old pit bull after the animal chewed her Bible.
Miriam Fowler Smith, of 410 John Worthy Road, Pacolet Mills, is charged with ill treatment of animals in general, torture, according to an arrest warrant. Smith’s nephew told officers he left the animal at the home he shared with his aunt during the recent winter weather. After returning, he could not find the dog, named Diamond, and he assumed she had broken the chain that kept her on the home’s front porch, according to a report filed by a Spartanburg County environmental enforcement officer.
The man later told officers his aunt admitted to killing the animal, calling it a “devil” dog, and authorities were called to investigate.
After officers responded to the home, the woman told them she killed the dog because it had chewed her Bible and she feared for the safety of neighborhood children.
Officers found the dog’s body, which had been partially burned, lying in a pile of dried grass. An orange extension cord had been tied tightly around the dog’s neck and in its mouth.
