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A man who prosecutors say livestreamed himself torturing and burning a puppy alive has pleaded guilty to the act.
Desmond Levon Brown pleaded guilty to a federal charge of animal crushing, a charge that includes burning, under the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, better known as the PACT Act.
His guilty plea makes this the first time anyone in South Carolina has been convicted under the law, which was passed in 2019.
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Federal law enforcement, like the sheriff’s office, found a Facebook Live video Brown posted that showed him holding the puppy over the fire, dropping the puppy into the fire and repeatedly kicking the animal further into the fire, burning it alive.
The puppy belonged to a woman who had burned his clothes first, according to the sheriff’s office, and was found dead in the woods near the home Brown had burned the puppy at. “I’ve seen some extremely despicable and disgusting things in my career, but this is one of the worst,” Orangeburg County Sheriff Leroy Ravenell said at the time of the crime.
Investigation indicated that the fire Brown used to burn the puppy alive had also used a specific brand of rum as an accelerant that was originally imported from the Caribbean and then bottled in Kentucky before eventually making it to South Carolina. Transporting materials across international or state lines for use in a crime can place it under federal jurisdiction.
After his arrest, prosecutors say Brown admitted to burning the puppy during a recorded jail call.
“Brown’s gruesome torture of a puppy was heinous,” U.S. Attorney Bryan Stirling for the District of South Carolina said. “He showed no mercy in his crime, and we look forward to his sentencing. Our office will lead the fight to protect the welfare of animals in South Carolina.”
The puppy belonged to a woman who had burned his clothes first, according to the sheriff’s office, and was found dead in the woods near the home Brown had burned the puppy at. “I’ve seen some extremely despicable and disgusting things in my career, but this is one of the worst,” Orangeburg County Sheriff Leroy Ravenell said at the time of the crime.
Investigation indicated that the fire Brown used to burn the puppy alive had also used a specific brand of rum as an accelerant that was originally imported from the Caribbean and then bottled in Kentucky before eventually making it to South Carolina. Transporting materials across international or state lines for use in a crime can place it under federal jurisdiction.
After his arrest, prosecutors say Brown admitted to burning the puppy during a recorded jail call.
“Brown’s gruesome torture of a puppy was heinous,” U.S. Attorney Bryan Stirling for the District of South Carolina said. “He showed no mercy in his crime, and we look forward to his sentencing. Our office will lead the fight to protect the welfare of animals in South Carolina.”
Orangeburg man pleads guilty to burning puppy alive on Facebook Live
A man who prosecutors say livestreamed himself torturing and burning a puppy alive has pleaded guilty to the act.
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and that animal lovers in jail teaches him a lesson over and over again
