The following is a guest post from Crime, Interrupted- a fellow member of The True Crime Blogs.
Dear Lilliana: Children And Pets Are NOT Game Pieces!
Dear Lilliana: Children And Pets Are NOT Game Pieces!
I'm a little hostile this morning, but that's because I get sick of hearing about women who are willing to put their children (and in this case, a pet, too) in harm's way, all because a man wants to leave them.
A puppy is dead after Maricopa County sheriff's deputies said a woman arguing with her boyfriend tried to keep him from driving away by placing her children at either end of his moving vehicle and then throwing her pet under the tire.
Twenty-seven year old Lilliana Campo of Phoenix,Arizona,is the woman accused of using her children and her puppy as "pawns" to keep her boyfriend, Gary Jeffries from leaving. The puppy had to be put to sleep because of his injuries, but the children are fine. Campo was charged, booked, and released. From another article I have read, the children were placed in the custody of CPS.
Perhaps the most ironic and disturbing part of this whole incident is that it appears the boyfriend is still with Campo. He even got her a new puppy.
Here's this quote from Jeffries, regarding the puppy that was accidentally run over by him."We had him for a week," Jeffries, Campo's boyfriend, told CBS 5 News. "She had slept with the puppy by her side. It was like her child."Yeah, she allegedly killed a puppy, which was "like her child". Which really makes a person wonder how far she would be willing to go to hold onto her man, should another argument suddenly break out.
Sources: KPHO
Tucson Citizen