The woman that the dog owners had hired through the app Wag, was under investigation for animal cruelty after was killed by a Yorkshire Terrier, whom she was walking.
The employee, whose name is Hannah, took 8-year-old dog Angela Composto Bella for the usual walk. She was caught in the CCTV camera lens when I brought the dog home, «not reacting to anything,» as he told police in Miramar.
«Then Hannah left Bella in her cot to suffer and die,» said the investigator.
Composto, 52-year-old resident of long island, said that «her life will never be the same» after she was entrusted to a woman beloved dog.
After the death of Bella Hannah told various conflicting stories about what actually happened to the dog. First, she made a statement Composto, then the Wag, then his lawyer, who made a statement to the police on her behalf.
At approximately 8:18 a.m. the day of the death of Bella Composto received the message about walking the dog, in which it was said that the walk was great and where was the photo attached Bella and her sister Chloe with his tongue hanging and wagging tails. The report said that Bella «scared» when Chloe chased the bird, but soon the dogs were in their beds, and Hannah promised to «alone time» with the dogs, to make sure Bella was all right.
But she failed to keep her promise, and the camera on the door of the house was removed, it leaves in 6 minutes at 8:24.
About an hour later the representative called Wag the dog’s owner to say that Bella fell and Hannah «is in the house», although it was known that she left an hour ago. Composto replied that it was impossible, because I saw a video from surveillance cameras. To her house sent another employee to check the condition of the dog. He found Bella dead in her crib at 10:17.
The police contacted her and her lawyer Sherri Romano, in a prepared statement, they said that death was «an accident».
But investigators didn’t buy it.
«The statement has a lot of unclear moments. It is said that Bella has fallen. Then it is said that the dog pushed. It is also said that Hannah came back to the house with the two dogs and realized that the wounded Terrier. However, the video shows Hannah in a panic opens the door and makes stationary the dog,» wrote the investigator.
According to the autopsy report on head and neck Bella had bruises. Her skull was fractured and probably the «not enough time has passed between injury and death.» «Her wounds are consistent with trauma from impact with a blunt object, and that was the cause of death,» wrote the report from the pathologist.
Susan Chana Lask, the lawyer of the owner of the animal, said that the death of Bella — «cruelty in its worst manifestation.»
A representative of Wag said that Hannah no longer works through the platform after their «thorough investigation».
Hanna’s lawyer has not provided comment on this case.
