Deputy: Woman skinned puppy to make belt

[ccharles000]

A 23-year-old woman is accused of getting friend to kill her Jack Russell terrier and skinning the puppy to make a belt out of its hide.

Krystal Lynn Lewis and Austin Michael Mullins, 26, were being held Friday in the Muskogee County jail on $25,000 bail each. They were charged with one felony count of cruelty to animals.

"We're talking about a 6- or 7-week-old defenseless puppy," said sheriff's deputy George Roberson. "That's pretty heinous and sadistic."

A Muskogee County judge ordered a mental competency hearing for both defendants.

Lewis wanted the puppy, named Poplin, killed because it was a gift from a female ex-lover with whom she doesn't get along, said Muskogee County sheriff's deputy George Roberson.

Roberson said Mullins shot the terrier 10 times with a .22-caliber pistol. Lewis skinned the animal at her apartment and nailed the hide to a board.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/06/19/national/a081714D61.DTL

[rpannier]

1. Jail time

Followed by court supervised release with intense counseling

If i was a police officer where she lived I'd be driving by her house and place of business 6x a day

[bklyncowgirl]

2. Shot the puppy 10 times? Not being callous toward the dog's suffering here but...

Would there have been enough left of the poor thing to even make a belt?

Hope they throw the book at them.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Talk about being angry

Shooting the puppy 10 times shows anger. Obviously the puppy was a substitute for the ex lover. Both people were sick, sick, sick to do this.

[get the red out]

4. Not human beings

Monsters.

[msongs]

5. as for the calves who are skinned to make belts...? oh, no sponsors for their plight nt

[MercutioATC]

6. Lemme guess how this thread will go...

90% of people will express revulsion.

20% will suggest an "eye for an eye" punishment.

Somebody will point out that less "cute" animals like cows and pigs are killed by the thousands every day and will be immediately shouted down.



...or, at least, that's the way it's gone the last five times this story was posted...

[Pharlo]

7. You have to be a cold heartless bastard to kill

a six or seven week old anything - including calves, lambs, and piglets.

Now, shooting a 1500 pound heifer that's standing on your foot, won't move and looks at you with this completely bovine expression on its face while you're screaming and pounding on its hindquarter and its only response is to put more of its weight on the foot standing on yours....Trust me, that is completely understandable.

[MercutioATC]

9. I grew up on a dairy farm.

I completely agree with your second paragraph :)

[Clintonista2]

8. On a related note, the woman has been cast in the remake of a popular film...