Dog Cruelty

A Dillon woman came home from church Wednesday night to find her dog dead in the oven, according to Dillon Police Sgt. James Hayes.Hayes says when Bonnie Bowens got home that night, she noticed her front door kicked in. She did not go inside the home; instead, she called police. Hayes says police got that call around 10 p.m.
Wednesday.When investigators arrived, they say they found her house broken into and vandalized.While looking around her home, investigators say they noticed a chair propped against her oven door. Police were shocked at what they found inside. They say someone put Bowens’ dog in the oven, turned the oven on, and the dog was dead when they opened the door.Bowens told News13 she had her female pug, “Penny”, for about two-and-a-half months before she died Wednesday night.
“This is the first dog I have ever had,” Bowens said, “And it hurt me to my heart somebody did that to me, and burnt my dog up in the stove…I still cries and thinks about it.”Police say this happened at 1205 Owen Street in Dillon. “This is the first case I ever heard of like this that happened in Dillon,” Hayes said.
Investigators say the intruder or intruders ransacked Bowens’ home. A number of items from her drawers were scattered around the home, according to police. They do no have any suspects at this time.“That’s what we’re trying to figure out,” Hayes says, “What it is, gang-related or maybe somebody just got a vengeance against her and we don’t know right at this moment.

”Police say the person or persons responsible for this crime will face first-degree burglary and cruelty to animal charges. If you have any information on this case, please contact Dillon Police at (843) 774-0051 or, Crime Stoppers of the Pee Dee at (843) 667-TIPS (8477) or (866) 369-TIPS (8477). Callers do not need to reveal their identities.

It breaks my heart to read this article. My heart and Amore goes to Bonny Bowen.