75 Year-Old Ohio Woman Accused of Beating Fawn to Death

EUCLID, Ohio — An Ohio woman who found a fawn in her flower garden has been accused of beating it to death with a shovel. Dorothy Richardson, 75, was charged in a warrant with animal cruelty at her Euclid home near the Cleveland Metroparks Euclid Creek Reservation, a wooded park where deer, foxes and other wildlife roam.

Animal control officer Ann Mills requested the warrant. She said "everybody's very upset" about the fawn's June 15 death.

Richardson hasn't appeared in court. She told Cleveland's WKYC-TV she was afraid of the fawn and used a shovel to try to make it move. She said after it died she put it in a box and took it to the curb on trash day.

Euclid's cruelty to animals charge is punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

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Information from: The Plain Dealer, http://www.cleveland.com

Comments

[niesioa]

If I had a shovel I would beat the puck out of her

[jrandy]

Some animals just don't deserve to live. And by 'animals', I mean 'people'

[jenny42]

She was afraid. Plus we don't know what she had to do to keep that yard together after her husband died. She said that with a great sense of pride. She said that she saw the deers eyes when they made contact with hers. She began talking to the deer asking him who was gonna jump first. When her fear told her that this deer was going to jump her. It may have been a fawn, but in her fear, the deer could harm her. So she tapped it .... just like that "tap" and that was the end of Bambi.

[unwashedmasses]

WHAT?

[SantaFeStars]

No animal abuse is okay! This old lady needs to be on medication!

[StopGlobalWarmingBeVegan]

Nice, whoever kill cows and pigs will go to jail in the future.

[bbriani3842]

Nooooooo! Not Bambi!

[SeeJaneRunning]

No different than snapping the neck of a mouse in a trap. It's just a slightly larger rodent.

[nu primitive]

Or your neck. Just a larger rodent still.

[StrangeAngel]

SeeJaneRun­ningOffAtT­heMouth

[SeeJaneRunning]

Or yours, just a little insect.

[sodium]

LOL!

[sodium]

SeeJaneRunning said:"No different than snapping the neck of a mouse in a trap. It's just a slightly larger rodent."

Two things,jane.

1. It is **FAR** different to a snapping a mouse's neck. You'd have to stove the creatures head in to kill it with a shovel. Essentially she bashed its head in. Literally.

2. A deer is NOT a rodent.

No child left behind.

Indeed

[blueeyedbull]

SeeJaneRunning, I wish you were a rodent. Second thought, a rodent is above you.

[GetoffMylawn]

What's she growing in the garden, poison apples?

[sodium]

GetoffMylaw: "What's she growing in the garden, poison apples?"


OMG...that truly made me LOL!

[greenwren]

OK. I watched the YouTube video. A neighbor says she told him she beat the fawn to death and wanted to put it out as an example to the others.

Dorothy's little flower garden has to GO.

[eukaryote]

Big freakin' deal. One less vermin deer in the world... get over it. When about 80% of the extant deer population has been removed, there will still be too many. Pay her a bounty already.

[javaman]

so how many bodies do you have buried in your yard?

[ractols]

Remove 80% of the human population there will still be too many.

[Rinehart]

Lead by example and Volunteer to leave. But of course you're in that 20% right.

[unwashedmasses]

Sounds like Sarah Barracuda to me.

[ChiGuy]

Don't put her in jail.
Give her the same punishment which she used on the fawn.

[CraigR]

Too bad the fawn's mother didn't beat the old lady to death. Oh...that wouldn't happen, would it?

[little old lady]

Yes, it could (not with a shovel, though, I don't think). A doe is usually very protective of her fawn and will attack even dogs. I was in a sticky situation with a doe in Idaho last week and got out of her territory because I knew she was guarding fawns--she growled at me and kept making wide circles around me.

[Harry Tuttle]

It's S.arah P.alin 30 years from now.

[wiseraven]

She'll still be shooting wolves and such...

[callmeslice23]

Euclid's a really bad neighborhood.

Doesn't help that nutty mcsenior lives there.

[TParry]

I live in Euclid, Ohio. I can assure you that it is not "a bad neighborho­od." In fact, it's not a neighborhood at all. It's a city on the east side of Cleveland. I don't understand your "nutty mcsenior lives there" comment and won't even attempt a reply. I am sickened by what this woman did and hope that a high price is exacted for it. In the meantime, however, I would suggest that you don't write comments about things of which you are ignorant.

[Donns]

I actually spent a year in Euclid one week end

[StrangeAngel]

Put a pillow over her face the next time she falls asleep. Problem solved.

[Vickster]

So you support the death sentence, huh? I guess you are a strange angel.

[Harry Tuttle]

I support sarcasm. Which you obviously don't get. But thanks for playing. Buh-bye.

[StrangeAngel]

Here's a quarter. Go buy yourself a sense of humor.

[nu primitive]

You may be joking...b­ut I personally think it's an appropriate solution.

[SeeJaneRunning]

I'm usually against abo.rtion, but in your case I'd have provided your expectant mother the coat hanger free of charge.