Amy Lea Judge: Read a young woman's sick tribute to her dog Princess, one year after she callously threw the helpless animal from a second-floor Westfield parking garage
A woman who callously threw her dog to her death from a second-floor car park has posted bizarre tributes to the pet online.
Amy Lea Judge, 26, threw her Maltese Shih-Tzu named Princess off the nine-metre car park in Westfield Whitford City, north of Perth, in April last year.
She pleaded guilty at Midland Magistrates Court and was sentenced on Tuesday to eight months in prison for animal cruelty, and a further two months for other unrelated matters.
Judge's Facebook profile is full of posts about Princess made in the months after the innocent animal's death.
In one post, an illustration of a dog is shown next to data showing Princess's lifespan with the words: “A dog is much more than a pet.”
On another occasion, Judge posted a poem “commemorating a year without my dog.”
Amy Lea Judge (pictured) threw her dog Princess off a second-floor parking garage in April last year
“Wrote this last week… bit unsure but I did my best, I could probably improve it but this is the best I could come up with so far,” she wrote before sharing the poem.
The 179 comments on the post are all angry face emoji.
In another post, Judge paid tribute to Princess and what appeared to be one of her pets who had passed away.
'I hope you have found each other (sic) again and can now hold each other's paws forever. Keep each other safe in animal heaven,” she wrote
“I love you both so much, forever in my heart.”
Confrontational CCTV footage released by RSPCA WA on Tuesday showed Judge walking back and forth with Princess in her arms before launching the helpless dog over the edge.
Princess landed on the lower level of the parking lot, where she was found by a passerby who took her to the vet, thinking she had been hit by a car.
Judge shared a poem she wrote for Princess on Facebook after the pet's death
Judge's Facebook account is full of tributes to Princess, including an illustration of a dog with the dates of the dog's lifespan
She was put down after suffering internal bleeding, brain injuries and spinal and pelvic trauma.
The judge was also not allowed to own any animal for ten years.
According to RSPCA WA, the judge had confessed to the horrific crime in another Facebook post.
“I can't live with the guilt,” she wrote
'I threw my dog from the top floor of a shopping center car park and watched her fall to her death, but she survived and had to be put down because of the serious injuries I had caused her and all the damage I had caused.
'I killed my dog. I need the truth, it's… it's tearing me apart. I can't live with the guilt anymore.'
Judge later deleted the message and told an RSPCA WA inspector that her account had been hacked.
On Tuesday, the judge sentenced him to eight months in prison for animal cruelty, and a further two months for other unrelated matters.
Magistrate Mark Millington said the judge left the pet for dead in what he described as a “planned, deliberate and deliberate act”, Perth Now reported.
It was also found that Judge showed a lack of remorse, blamed others and made excuses for her shocking behavior.
RSPCA WA inspectors manager Kylie Green said the case was “one of the most distressing I have seen in my 11 years as an inspector”.
'Dogs can be so trusting and trust their owners to keep them safe. I can't think of a more disgusting violation of that trust.
“Today's outcome provides some justice for the pain and terror the poor princess endured in her final hours.”
Earlier this year, Judge's 23-year-old partner, Scott Frost, was fined $2,500 and banned from owning animals for three years for failing to seek veterinary care for the animal.