The owner of a pet who was arrested for hurling her dog

The moment a dog owner in Australia flung her Maltese Shih Tzu from the top of a multi-story parking garage was seen on camera. After being taken to the veterinarian by a bystander who discovered the dog in the parking lot of the Westfield Whitford City shopping center in Perth, Western Australia, in April 2022, the dog, called Princess, had to be put down. The severity of the 10-year-old dog's injuries, which included suspected internal hemorrhaging, brain damage, and spinal and pelvic trauma, led onlookers to believe it had been struck by a car after it fell nine meters.

The dog's 26-year-old owner, Amy Judge, was sentenced to 12 months in prison and a 10-year ban from possessing animals on Tuesday. In the weeks following the incident, she acknowledged tossing her dog from the highest level of the parking lot, claiming to have "done her a favor because all I did was hurt her and abuse her." Judge, who is from Clarkson in Perth, wrote: "I can't live with the guilt, I threw my dog off the top story (sic) of a shopping center car park and watched her fall to her death but she survived and needed to be put down due to how badly I injured her."

"I killed my dog and I need the truth out in the open... it's tearing me apart I can't live with the lies anymore... I did her a favor because all I did was hurt and abuse her," the post reads, garnering 112 responses. She continues: "Now everybody knows the truth and I can put my mind at ease knowing I no longer have to live with all the lies." Her partner, Scott Frost, 23, who was present at the time of the event, was fined 2,500 Australian dollars and prohibited from possessing animals for three years for neglecting to get Princess's veterinary attention.

Court-played CCTV evidence depicts Judge seemingly getting into a fight with Frost, hanging Princess over the side of the roof many times, and letting the animal stroll down the roof edge for around eight minutes. The next scene in the video shows Judge hurling Princess off the roof. After verifying Princess's microchip, a veterinarian got in touch with Judge, who was identified as her owner. After discussing the nature of the dog's ailments and the expense of treatment with Frost at the veterinarian's office, Judge decided to put the dog down.

Judge had abandoned Princess for dead in what Magistrate Mark Millington called a "planned, deliberate, and intentional act," the judge stated before sentence. In her 11 years of employment, Kylie Green, inspector manager at the RSPCA in Western Australia, called the event the "most distressing" she had ever witnessed. It was a "callous and extremely confronting display of animal cruelty," the speaker said. The judge served two months in jail for unconnected crimes and 10 months for throwing her dog over the edge.