A Texas boy called 911 on Saturday to report that his mother “believed he was the devil” and was “burning the family dogs” in front of her children.
Police responded to the Henderson home at around 1 p.m. and received another call about the same woman showing up at a home with bloody hands and claiming her parents were killed.
The 32-year-old woman’s parents were found safe at the family home when she drove up with her four children, ages 1 to 11, and screamed, “Help, help, help me, someone is trying to kill me.”
A Rusk County Sheriff’s deputy noted that the mother had signs of “paranoia”, “abnormally fast breathing,” and was “sweating profusely” as he tried to calm her down.
The kids were retrieved by their grandparents while deputies questioned the mother, who allegedly admitted to killing the family’s two dogs in front of her four children.
Deputies found canine remains in a fire pit in front of the home. The woman was arrested on two felony counts of cruelty to animals and four counts of endangering children.
