SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) – A southwest Ohio woman has been charged with animal cruelty for putting a sickly dog into a trash bag for collection.
Reports say 53-year-old Tracy Brown, of Springfield, appeared in court Friday and asked for a public defender.
Police say Brown called police last month and asked how to dispose of a dead dog, telling a dispatcher she’d put the dog’s body outside because it smelled.
Workers then picked up the trash bag containing a male boxer mix named Ledo. Police say workers opened the bag at a compost center and found Leo barely alive. A humane officer killed Ledo to alleviate his pain.
Brown told the newspaper she raised and loved Ledo but knew he was alive when she put him in the trash bag.WHAT OTHERS ARE CLICKING ON:
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