Man who burned his Chihuahua alive gets prison time
A judge has sentenced an Oakland man to three years and eight months in state prison for burning his weeks-old Chihuahua dog alive.
The Sacramento Bee reported a judge Friday sentenced 21-year-old Willie Bee Turner for animal cruelty causing death, animal cruelty and arson for setting ablaze the puppy he named Angel Star.
Prosecutors say Turner set fire to the Chihuahua-mix puppy in January 2015 after getting angry when the dog defecated in his friend’s Sacramento apartment.
They say Turner poured a cleaning fluid on the 8-week-old puppy, put it into a crate and lit the animal on fire.
Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Lawrence Brown called the crime “an unspeakable affront to societal norms.”
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