A woman who admitted to her involvement in the torture and death of three dogs will not face felony charges, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office has decided.
In a Jan. 9 letter addressed to the animal rescue Paws Fur the Cause, Deputy County Attorney Thomas Rinehart wrote that there was not a “reasonable likelihood” that the woman could be convicted of a felony. Rinehart then said his office is referring the case to Mesa City Court for possible misdemeanors.
Mesa police arrested 42-year-old Brook Scalero in November after her roommate discovered her journal describing the abuse and deaths of multiple dogs in “torturous detail.”…