Humanity is a dying art. Part 2

EUCLID, Ohio (AP) — A 75-year-old woman is accused of beating a fawn to death after finding it in the garden of her home near a wooded park.

Dorothy Richardson has been charged in a warrant with animal cruelty on June 15 at her Euclid home near the Cleveland Metroparks Euclid Creek Reservation.

Ann Mills, a Euclid animal control officer, requested the warrant.

Euclid’s cruelty to animals charge is a first-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Richardson has not yet appeared in court.

She told Cleveland’s WKYC-TV she was afraid of the fawn and used a shovel to try to make it move. She said after it died she put it in a box and took it to the curb on trash day.