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As a young woman, Jerrica Agnew, watched from her porch in a Memphis neighborhood, two young men, Vincent Boykin, 20, and Tristan Hataway, 18, doused a puppy with gasoline and set it on fire.

“Vincent he was holding down the dog while Tristan actually set light to the dog and set him on fire.” says Agnew.

The little puppy, a 4 month old shepherd or shepherd mix, struggled, rolling in the grass, trying to put the fire out.

“It was making noise. It rolled around in the grass trying to put itself out. For a minute I thought it was dead.” says Agnew.

Jerrica, 18, and her 16 yr old sister, Jasmine Johnson, rushed over and tried to help the dog, which ran down the street on fire and was rolling in the grass.

“It was yelping and crying,” said Johnson. “They were low-down to do this to that dog.”

Boykin and Tristen were arrested on aggravated animal cruelty and this is not their first time in trouble either. Both have records and Hataway was just released from jail and was bond on charges of aggravated assault and aggravated burglary.

Boykin pleaded guilty to attempted voluntary manslaughter in 2007 for an incident in which he told police he hid in a trash can for hours before shooting a man in the leg.

When reporters when to Hataway’s house, no one was home but they did find a gas can. Next door was the home of Boykin’s mother. She claims her son is innocent and was in the house when the incident took place.

“They knew they weren’t out here. They were not out here. I talked to my other son. My other son said wasn’t nobody out here before and Vincent walked out the house. By him already having a record, police carried him to jail.” says Boykin’s mother.

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Last week I wrote about the horrific abuse a number of Tulsa, Oklahoma dogs have been suffering at the hands of an unknown piece of human trash and now the reward is up to $5000.

There have been five dogs found with severe burns along their back. Someone set the dogs on fire after pouring a caustic material on them.

Three of the five dogs did not survive the abuse. Two others, a boxer, which has been named Winston, and a pitbull, named Pepe, have both pulled through their terrible injuries and are recovering, Winston is with Tulsa Boxer Rescue and Pepe is is with the Humane Society of Tulsa. Both dogs will be able to be adopted once they are recovered enough.

Police are taking these crimes very seriously!

“We consider this very serious,” Tulsa County Sheriff’s Sgt. Willie Lewis said. “You have heard of a ‘gateway drug.’ We consider this a gateway crime, where people start out abusing animals — which is very serious — but then it goes on to the abuse of human beings, also.”

Investigators think the dogs were abused by the same people. The dogs were found between Pine Street and 66th Street north and Cincinnati to Yale Avenues.

A witness came forward and told investigators that the person responsible for the abuse may have been driving a red 1980s model Ford pickup truck.

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Dogs being burned in Tulsa Workers at the Tulsa Animal shelter are worried and want to issue a warning to dog owners as well as find out what pathetic excuse for a human being is deliberately burning dogs in Tulsa.

Since July 4th there have been 4 dogs found with, what vets believe, are caustic acid burns along their back, from neck to tail. The latest victim of this sadistic abuse is a 6 month old boxer puppy.

One of the other dogs didn’t survive its injuries and another, which had been tossed out of a moving truck, its companion that was thrown out as well was hit and killed, is now ready to be adopted into a loving home.

Lee Ann Mitten of Animal Control is urging you to make sure you know the whereabouts of your animals so you can keep them safe.

If you have any information on these cases, call the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office at (918) 596-5704.

Someone set a six month old puppy on fire in a Lancaster neighborhood in CA and the quick thinking of a resident who heard the painful and panicked yelping of the puppy saved her from worse injuries than she received.

Authorities are asking for the public’s help in locating a suspect who deliberately set a dog on fire in Lancaster late Monday night. The badly burned dog is currently being treated at a Lancaster animal shelter and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday offered a $5,000 reward in hopes of finding the assailant.

Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the 300 block of East Lingard Street near Foxton Avenue shortly after 11:30 p.m after receiving a call from a neighbor, Lt. David Oliva of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Lancaster Station said.

A woman at the scene said that she and her stepson heard horrible yelping sounds, went outside and saw that a dog had been set ablaze in the front yard of the vacant house next door.

While totally engulfed in flames, the dog — a pit bull mix — started running in circles in the street. The woman then ripped off her jacket and threw it on the dog to put out the flames, Oliva said.

Six Month Old Puppy Set on Fire

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We can only hope that a day will come when these faces will be no more, when people will have heart and compassion and empathy enough to never let these things happen to these innocent and defenseless creatures.

Not for the faint of heart but then again the harsh side of reality seldom ever is!

We Will Never Dance with the Devil Again

In a crime that literally galvanized the world, 5 young boys, aged 9-14, poured gas on a dog and set it on fire, leaving it to die a cruel and painful death.

Although this horrendous and senseless crime took place in Nashville, TN, pleas came from all over the world, begging that these boys would be sentenced to the maximum punishment for this crime. Sadly, the maximum they could have received was placement in Tennessee Department of Children’s Services custody and not jail time or a record and they didn’t even received that!

This poor abused dog, died, alone and nameless in an alley after being doused with gasoline. These boys get to go back home and sleep in their beds and plot their next crimes.

In court Tuesday, the boys learned they will not face any jail time, but they will be required to go through counseling and evaluations as well as regular check ups with a probation officer although two of the boys have a hearing in May, which could determine whether they’ll have to go into state custody.

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Meet Lucky, doesn’t look so lucky does he, but actually he is one of the lucky ones and so he has been named.

Th is little three month old puppy was badly burned by either chemicals or fire then dumped in a box and abandoned on the side of the road to die a miserable, lonely and painful death.

But thanks to a good Samaritan, Dawn Wilyard, he didn’t die and now is on the road to recovery. He will always carry the scars of his abuse though.

A friend of Wilyard’s called her and said that she had a puppy abandoned on the side of the Lylewood Road, Clarksville, TN, left to die. The friend couldn’t stop to help but knew that Wilyard would be able to. She went out to the area and at first didn’t see the puppy, just the torn up box it had been dumped in.

“I couldn’t really see him, so I thought, ‘He’s not there, he must have took off,’ but he just wasn’t moving. Then I saw that,” Wilyard said, pointing to a picture she had taken of the puppy, skin missing from its head as if someone took a cheese grater to it and its rib bones showing because of malnourishment. “I cried … it looked as if someone had thrown him, the way he was laying in the box.”

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You’ve probably heard the names Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy; all names of notorious killers and what do they all have in common? They started out as animal abusers. What about the names; Kip Kinkle and Luke Woodham or Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold? Not quite so well known except in some circles and in the minds and memories of their victims’ families. These two pairs of names belong to teenage boys who went on killing sprees, the second pair are the infamous Columbine High School killers. What do they all have in common? They all tortured and killed animals, sometimes bragging to their friends.

Now what about the names; Dasha Lombard, James Manzanares, and Nicholas Stogdon? Probably not unless you live in Alamogordo, MN and either know them or were paying attention to the news in late spring in this year, 2007. They are three ‘children,’ aged 15, 14 and 13, at the time, who found a wandering puppy and decided to have some fun. They taped the dog’s muzzle shut with packing tape, stabbed her with a knife and screwdriver and proceeded to drop a 40 lb concrete block on her. When questioned about it, the response was, ‘It was just a f—— dog!” These ‘children’ were completely unaffected by the torture they inflicted on this innocent and defenseless animal.

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A wooded area off Tippecanoe Road in Fayette County, PA is the scene of one of the worst cases of animal abuse animal control officers there have ever seen.

When authorities were called in to investigate smoke coming from the wooded area, they found a gruesome sight; three dogs hanged in a tree, burned and dead. And ominously close to the scene, carved into the base of another tree, a pentagram.

“It’s crazy,” said Rob Maule of the Fayette County Humane Society. “It’s ridiculous. It’s inhumane.”

“I cried,” said Theresa Lundren of the Humane Society. “I cried when I first seen this. But then I got strong, because I want to get who done this. I believe this dog might have been used as a satanic ritual, and it might have been alive when they did this.”

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Antoine Draper filed a police report, he brought forth witnesses to the cruel heinous crime but still the criminal walks free.

MiMi, a 2 year old pit bull that Antoine Draper left with his brother was doused with gasoline and set on fire as she gave birth to her puppies by Draper’s brother’s ex-girlfriend in a stoned fit of rage and vengeance against Draper’s brother.

Antoine said it was like parting with a child when he sent MiMi to live with his brother temporarily.

“From a puppy I fed her with a bottle. From the time she was born,” Draper said.

Then, just days before Christmas he got a call which would turn his life upside down and make him sick to his stomach, someone had set his MiMi on fire as she was birthing her puppies. When he got to his brother’s, MiMi was still burning and to make matters even worse, this was no ’stranger’ crime.

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For more information on Derick Phanord and Maximus and links to complete background information- Click HERE!

We all remember the horrific story of Maximus, tied to a tree and set on fire. All the efforts couldn’t save this poor sweet dog from his fate and he succumbed to death just days after the cruel assault. And of course we also remember Derick Phanord, the heartless cretin who confessed to pouring gasoline on Maximus, then named Spike, in a fit of rage, then set him on fire with a lit cigarette and left him to his cruel fate.

Indicted on felony animal cruelty charges, although he pleaded not guilty and his lawyer used every sleazy trick in the book to attempt to circumvent justice but it didn’t work.

In November he decided to plead guilty to aggravated animal cruelty and faced a maximun of a two year sentence which I am happy to say he did receive!

“I am not a monster. I am a good guy,” a weeping Derick Phanord, 22, said before his sentencing in a Riverhead courtroom. “I am an animal lover,” he said.

“I am sorry for what I did,” Phanord told Judge C. Randall Hinrichs before sentencing. “I will pray to God every day that He forgives me.”

A Suffolk SPCA investigator, Robert Aversano, was leery of Phanord’s courtroom display of remorse and his statement that he prayed for the dog after he set it on fire.

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