The director of a dog shelter Torremolinos has been taken to court because of the death of 2,200 dogs and cats.

The director, Carmen Marin of the municipality asylum, Parque Animal Torremolinos, has these last days been in the courtroom to give her testimony about the allegations that she has slain  at least 2,200 dogs and cats, by her own hand. The prosecutor wants the director to serve four years in prison but she denies the allegations and says that nothing is true and that she even has a phobia to needles. In other words that she had never been able to give lethal injections. Employee testimonials say otherwise.

According to the director of the shelter in Torremolinos 2,200 healthy dogs and cats have not been "murdered" in the asylum and that the number is not even up to 280 in three years. If the animals have died then that was the result of bad work by veterinarians and not attributable to her.

Within 24 hours

According to the prosecutor in Torremolinos between 2008 and 2010 no less than 2,200 healthy dogs and cats were killed, the number may even increase to 2,800 animals. The killings usually happened within 24 hours after they had arrived in the municipal shelter. The reason for this "murder" was just to cut costs. Employees have also submitted statements and say that every morning the security cameras were switched off so that nothing was recorded. In addition, the administrative staff listened to loud music so as not to hear the whining and howling of the dogs.

Vets

Several veterinarians, however, confirm the story of the massacre of dogs and cats. One of these vets has video recordings made of the sorry state of the dogs and cats that lived at the shelter but also of a courtyard filled with the corpses of the dogs and cats whose lives were taken. Another vet says he saw himself how the director, without anesthesia and without precision, placed the lethal injections in dogs and cats. The worst thing is that it was in most cases a slow and painful death for the animals.

Declaration

Eventually, the case came to light after volunteers and former employees raised the question of the dubious circumstances in the shelter with Seprona, the special animal welfare unit of the Guardia Civil. They went to investigate and ultimately arrested the director when they came to the shelter and saw the situation. The question is why no one else has reported the situation over the years. Thus it's possible that the lives of hundreds of poor animals that ended up in the shelter of Torremolinos could have been saved.