A woman who threw her dog from a second-storey carpark confessed to the horrific act of cruelty on social media saying she struggled to live with the guilt.
Amy Lea Judge, 26, callously hurled her Maltese Shih-Tzu named Princess off the 9 metre-high carpark at Westfield Whitford City, north of Perth, in April last year.
She pleaded guilty in Midland Magistrates Court and on Tuesday was sentenced to eight months in prison for animal cruelty, as well as a further two months for other unrelated matters.
Confronting CCTV footage released by RSPCA WA on Tuesday shows Judge passing back-and-forth with the Princess in her arms, before launching the helpless dog over the edge.
Princess landed on the lower level of the carpark, where she was found by a passer-by who took her to the vet, thinking that she'd been hit by a car.
She was put down after suffering internal haemorrhaging, a brain injury and spinal and pelvic trauma.
Amy Lea Judge (pictured) threw her female Maltese Shih-Tzu named Princess off the 9 metre-high carpark at Westfield Whitford City, north of Perth, in April last year
She was also banned from owning any animal for a decade.
According to RSPCA WA, Judge had confessed to the hideous crime on Facebook.
‘I can't live with the guilt,' she wrote
‘I threw my dog off the top story of a shopping centre carpark and watched her fall to her death, but she survived and needed to be put down due to how badly I injured her, all the damage I caused.
‘I killed my dog. I need the truth out in the open it's … tearing me apart I can't live with the guilt anymore.'
Judge later deleted the post and told an RSPCA WA inspector her account had been hacked.
Judge confessed to the shocking act in a Facebook post but later deleted it and claimed her account had been hacked
Judge was on Tuesday sent to prison for eight months for the animal cruelty charge and a further two months for other unrelated matters
Magistrate Mark Millington said Judge had left the pet for dead in what he described as a ‘planned, deliberate and intentional act', Perth Now reported.
It was also found that Judge displayed a lack of remorse, blamed others and made excuses for her shocking behaviour.
RSPCA WA inspector manager Kylie Green said the case was ‘one of the most distressing I've seen in my 11 years as an inspector'.
‘Dogs can be so trusting, and they rely on their owners to keep them safe. I can't think of a more disgusting betrayal of that trust.
‘Today's outcome delivers some justice for the pain and terror poor Princess endured in her final hours.'
Earlier this year, Judge's 23-year-old partner, Scott Frost, was fined $2500 and banned from owning animals for three years for failing to seek vet care for the animal.
Judge was made eligible for parole.
Princess was put down after suffering internal haemorrhaging, a brain injury and spinal and pelvic trauma
