Woman hanged nephew's 'devil dog' from tree before burning it after it chewed her Bible
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Miriam Smith told officers she ****** the female pit bull named Diamond because it was a 'devil dog'
A US woman has been charged with ****** cruelty after allegedly hanging her nephew's pit bull from a tree with an electrical cord and burning its body after it chewed on her Bible.
****** control officers said that 65-year-old Miriam Smith told them she ****** a female dog named Diamond because it was a 'devil dog' and she worried it could harm neighbourhood ********.
Smith's nephew left the one-year-old ****** 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.
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The young pit bull (not the one pictured) was found with an orange extension cord wrapped tightly around its neck and its body was partially burned
Smith is charged with ill treatment of ******* in general, *******, 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.
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