If convicted, she should be sentenced to death.
I honestly never thought that I would say that someone who kills an animal should be sentenced to death. Even a few years ago when someone snatched a woman’s dog out of her backyard and slit its throat because it wouldn’t stop barking, I didn’t think they deserved to be executed for it (although I readily admit I could see myself quite probably feeling differently if it was one of my dogs).
Maureen McLaughlin, however, deserves the death penalty if she is in fact guilty as charged. She won’t get it — in fact, so far they can technically only charge her with one count of animal cruelty, so she probably won’t get much more than a slap on the wrist.
Maureen likes to go around and collect animals — small dogs, puppies and cats — mostly from people who think they’re surrendering the animal to a rescue representative. Maureen takes these animals home in a small pet crate and then, when she gets them into her apartment, she submerges the crate in a trashcan full of water to drown them. She’s done this, by her own admission to investigators earlier this week, since 2002. Two of her victims were her mother’s cat and her mother’s friend’s cat. She’s done it more than 650 times. In small plastic bags, she keeps a tuft of fur from each animal, along with a written description, the date, animal’s name and so on — sort of a macabre obituary or a twisted memorial. She knows it’s wrong, but couldn’t tell investigators why she does it.
Maureen wasn’t home when investigators showed back up the next day to arrest her and her whereabouts are currently unknown. The prosecutor worries that she may wind up working or volunteering for an unsuspecting veterinarian, rescue agency or animal shelter. At the link below, you can find a short news video with pictures (all of them grainy, unfortunately) of this woman.
WBNS-10TV, Central Ohio’s News Leader – Woman Accused Of Drowning Hundreds Of Animals | Kate blogs at The Original Musings.
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this is rude, that stupid maureen bitch better be in jail, these poor animals are getting so tortured and its wrong! we should do something about it! STOP ANIMAL CRUELTY u have no reason to do it!
hey hypocrisy-
if the vistims were human, the authorities and society wold have been on to this woman long ago.
she is a predator and chose to murder animals vs humans- they are smaller and less vocal, more easy prey as it were. she is not so ‘ill’ that she could not dispose of the bodies, lie to people, keep a clean apartment.
she has a compulsion to kill and she WILL start again after she is released from confinement (hospital or prison). all the meds and cognitive therapy on the planet will not stop her compulsion.
this sounds cruel, but the best thing would be for her to take her own life. even then, someone will come out of the woodwork and whine that society did not ‘help’ her …. too bad
I think that this lady should be put against the wall and killed …. or do the same thing to her slit her throat and such kill her dead….. she is a sick individual and needs to be stopped immediately before anything else happens to the animals …. kill the bitch i say……
I know this woman and she is mentally ill. She did NOT do what she confessed to. She should be in a mental institution rather than jail.
Of course she did it. I know it is hard to believe anyone could be so cruel. But get out of your denial lady (Anne).
They have the bodies of a few (which she led the police to) plus tuffs of hair, and plenty of other evidence.
She is an evil person and like some of the other posters stated above, she deserves the death penalty. It is
no less a crme than killing innocent defenseless children.
hear is the thing i know this woman i trusted her with our pets she even got a pet of mine fixed then gave her back to me i would help her pick up these animals for her to get fixed and thought she was getting them good homes i had no idea what she was doing to them god rest her soul because each time i feel like coming back to Columbus and pushing her head into a bucket of watter and letting her feel like drowsing and pulling her out long enough to breath and repeating it for hours and days on end .. maureen if you ever get to read this i was your closest friend how could you how could you hurt these animals and take my trust away .. i thought you were a good woman.. did you do this to your child you had and could never tell anyone where she is ?
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