{"id":56319,"date":"2018-01-09T05:13:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T05:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=56319"},"modified":"2018-01-09T06:01:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T06:01:15","slug":"ohio-woman-accused-of-letting-3-dogs-starve-to-death-4-found-malnourished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/ohio-woman-accused-of-letting-3-dogs-starve-to-death-4-found-malnourished.html","title":{"rendered":"Ohio woman accused of letting 3 dogs starve to death, 4 found malnourished"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Ohio woman accused of letting 3 dogs starve to death, 4 found malnourished<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">A woman is being held in jail after three dogs were found dead and four more severely malnourished in her home, reports say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones tells WLWT Channel 5 that Melissa Damico moved out of the home and left the seven dogs behind in severe cold without food or heat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The landlord, Tim Plageman, found the dogs after he stopped by the home to collect rent, according to WCPO Channel 9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Plageman tells Channel 9 that Damico is an animal lover.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;She&#8217;s not a bad person,&#8221; Plageman tells WCPO. &#8220;I think due to some emotional problems that were going on in her family, I think she assigned someone to check on the dogs and they either didn&#8217;t or didn&#8217;t feed them or water them. I&#8217;m not sure.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Damico is charged with three felonies of cruelty to animals and four misdemeanors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The four surviving dogs are receiving care and are expected to recover, reports say. They then will be put up for adoption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">St. Clair Township is locate north of Cincinnati in southwest Ohio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/metro\/index.ssf\/2018\/01\/ohio_woman_accused_of_letting.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/ohio-woman-accused-of-letting-3-dogs-starve-to-death-4-found-malnourished.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio woman accused of letting 3 dogs starve to death, 4 found malnourished A woman is being held in jail after three dogs were found dead and four more severely malnourished in her home, reports say. Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones tells WLWT Channel 5 that Melissa Damico moved out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[114069,114067,3284,3300,114066,114068],"class_list":["post-56319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-columbiana-county","tag-melissa-damico","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-woman-accused-of-letting-3-dogs-starve-to-death-4-found-malnourished","tag-st-clair-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}