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A South Carolina sicko admitted that he burned a defenseless puppy alive by throwing the pooch into a massive rum-fueled fire — while broadcasting the shocking torture online, federal prosecutors said.
Desmond Levon Brown, 29, is facing up to seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty under the US Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act for the stomach-turning Dec. 18, 2024, incident, the US Attorney’s Office said in a press release on Thursday.
“Brown’s gruesome torture of a puppy was heinous,” Bryan Stirling, US Attorney for the District of South Carolina, said in a statement released last week. “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.”
According to the Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office, Brown got into a domestic dispute with an unidentified woman who burned some of his clothes — setting the goon off and prompting him to toss her puppy into a fire set by his pal using imported Caribbean rum.
Deputies arrested Brown after they were shown a Facebook Live video of the sick act, the office said.
The footage shows the goon holding the helpless pup over the flames then dropping it into the flames, then “repeatedly kicking the puppy into the fire, burning it alive,” federal prosecutors said.
Brown later admitted that he burned the dog in recorded jailhouse conversations.
“I’ve seen some extremely despicable and disgusting things in my career,” Orangeburg Sheriff Leroy Ravenell said at the time of the arrest. “But this is one of the worst.”
In addition to prison time, Brown faces up to $250,000 in fines and restitution.
His plea marks South Carolina’s first conviction under the federal animal cruelty act.
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