A Texas boy called 911 and informed the dispatcher that his mother was currently burning the family’s two small dogs.
The 11-year-old boy called dispatchers around 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 17.
He also told a dispatcher that his 32-year-old mother, Veronica Loredo, “believed he was the devil,” according to a Rusk County Sheriff’s Office press release.
Officers responded to the Henderson residence and allegedly found Loredo inside a vehicle with four children ranging in age from two to eleven.
“She had rolled the passenger side window and was screaming ‘help, help, help me, someone is trying to kill me,'” according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by PEOPLE.
According to the affidavit, an officer attempted to speak with Loredo, who was “sweating profusely and breathing abnormally fast.” “The defendant did admit to killing their dogs in front of her children,” according to the statement.
The boy reportedly told officers that Loredo locked the kids inside the car before taking the family pets and burning them in the fire.
“[Loredo] did have stains on her hands consistent with being exposed to a wood fire,” according to the affidavit.
Officers discovered the dog’s remains in the fire in front of the house, according to the press release.
Loredo is charged with two felony counts of cruelty to non-livestock animals and four counts of endangering a child. She is being held under a $400,000 bond.
