“She just acted like - what’s done has been done,” Nelson said. He said he was stunned by how flat the woman’s emotions sounded as she recounted on tape what happened to the dog.īond has not been set, and Smith could face 180 days in jail if convicted. Smith’s mental state will likely affect what kind of penalties she faces, Nelson added. Smith is the first person is Spartanburg County to face a felony charge under South Carolina’s tougher animal cruelty law, said Jaime Nelson, director of the county’s Environmental Enforcement Department.

Authorities found the dog’s body under a pile of cut grass, with part the orange cord still attached to her neck. She found the Bible on the back porch and chewed it up, doubtless from boredom.The dog’s owner had been away for two weeks because of the bad weather, and Smith took this opportunity to strangle Diamond with a power cord, poured kerosene on the body and burned it. “Diamond”, the female pit bull was just one year old. An unlikely scenario, considering that the poor dog was kept chained in a backyard for its short life. Miriam Smith (64) from Spartanburg claims the animal was a “devil dog” and that she killed it to “keep neighborhood children safe”. A South Carolina woman has been charged with felony animal cruelty, accused of hanging her nephew’s pit bull with an electrical cord and burning its body after the dog chewed on her Bible.

My dog chewed my library book