Ohio Elderly Woman Accused of Beating Deer to Death With Shovel
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An Ohio woman who found a fawn in her flower garden has been accused of beating it to death with a shovel.
Seventy-five-year-old Dorothy Richardson is 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 says "everybody's very upset" about the fawn's June 15 death.
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Richardson hasn't appeared in court. She tells Cleveland's WKYC-TV she was afraid of the fawn and used a shovel to try to make it move. She says 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.