A 65-year-old South Carolina woman has been charged with cruelty to animals after confessing to torturing and hanging a pit bull dog after the dog chewed on her Bible. Miriam Fowler Smith of Pacolet Mills, South Carolina, was arrested Sunday and taken to the Spartanburg County jail, facing felony charges.
Spartanburg County authorities report that Smith 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.
When questioned by police and animal control officers, Miriam Smith claimed the female dog named "Diamond" was a "devil dog" and she feared it might harm neighborhood children.
The dog belonged to Miriam Smith's nephew, Andy Fowler. The dog was just one year of age. According to one report, Diamond lived on a chain in the yard. The dog’s body was found on the property under a pile of dried grass with an orange electrical cord still around its neck.
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What a wing whacko!! I love these bible thumpers that are holier than thou. They are the biggest hypocrites in the world. A dog, which doesn't know the bible from a newspaper gets tortured and hanged for chewing a book. No real person of God would do this, unless they were seriously mentally ill. I can only assume she was insane or evil. Either way, she's a hypocrite!!
What a wing whacko!! I love these bible thumpers that are holier than thou. They are the biggest hypocrites in the world. A dog, which doesn't know the bible from a newspaper gets tortured and hanged for chewing a book. No real person of God would do this, unless they were seriously mentally ill. I can only assume she was insane or evil. Either way, she's a hypocrite!!
I would love to spend 5 mins alone with her - that poor dog!
Another fine example of mental illness masquerading as religious faith
Do the same to her. That's all she's worth. Burn her and the story's over. Enough said.
Two words:
Michael Vick.
A few more words:
Obama congratulated him.
A few more words:
People that are cruel to animals, are not mentally stable, and this includes Michael Vick. Who do you suppose he voted for?
A few more words:
I have reported your insane drivel Sanders Kaufman, your post is offensive, untrue, and makes grandiose generalizations about an entire religion all based on this author's assertion (which is probably exaggerated) that this woman killed her dog because she thought it was evil.
She killed the dog because she's POS, just like Michale Vick, and the president who supported him.
Evangelical Republican Culture?
What , pray tell you FREAK is that?
You have been reported.
As for you Michale Stone
You are full of shyte.
You ought to be ashamed.
Michael Vick...
Michael Vick shot his dogs, burned them, strangled them, electrocuted them, beat them, buried them alive...
And all you idiots can think to do is turn it into a political fest..
POS
That's religion for you.
Sick. Sad. Sick! I pray for her soul that God would show more mercy on her than she showed that poor puppy.
That should be reasonable punishment for chewing a Bible. In some Muslim countries, if you mess up someone's Koran, they stone you, to death slowly. In public too. So this poor dog got a decent execution in the privacy of his own home.
My dog is a lot like this one. Makes me sad that so many idiots do things like that. one of the reasons i am a atheist. :(
What a whack job. Should commit her so she can't hurt anything ore anyone else.
Convalescent Camps, Gas Chambers and Ovens need to be brought back with a fury never seen before on Planet Earth. The World is being overtaken by these genetically mutant misfit monsters and they must be Euphanized immediately if not sooner! Gas and Burn the Witch before she puts a curse on anymore innocent Victims. And BURN HER BIBLE WITH HER while you are at it! RARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Makes you wonder. Does she think God will be pleased with her? I don't believe the God I pray to would be pleased. I hope she gets the maximum sentence but even if she doesn't, she will be judged one day. And the bible says Vengence is mine sayeth the LORD!
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