Passenger Drowns Her Dog At Orlando Airport Bathroom After Being Denied Check-In

One of the most vile and sickening travel stories I have ever heard happened at Orlando Airport, where a female passenger drowned her dog in a bathroom and disposed of the animal in the trash after being denied check-in due to lack of documentation.

The woman from Louisiana was en route to Colombia on a LATAM flight, but due to insufficient documentation for the animal, she was denied boarding by the airline, she then killed the animal and took her flight.

This incident happened in December, but the woman was monitored and eventually arrested following her return to the U.S. after an investigation into the deceased dog, which had a microchip as well as pet supplies that clearly identified her as the owner.

According to ABC News, the Louisiana woman was arrested, arraigned, and is currently on bail pending trial for her vile behavior, classified as a third-degree felony.

A woman drowned her dog in a Florida airport bathroom and then boarded her international flight after she was prevented from bringing the white miniature schnauzer with her because of a paperwork issue, authorities said.

The woman was arrested in Lake County on Wednesday on a charge of aggravated animal abuse, a third-degree felony. She was released on $5,000 bail.

“This act was intentional and resulted in a cruel and unnecessary death of the animal,” said an arrest affidavit from the Orlando Police Department.

Online court records showed no attorney listed for the woman from Kenner, Louisiana.

The investigation into the death of the 9-year-old schnauzer named Tywinn started in December when a janitor found the dog in a trash bag in a bathroom stall at Orlando International Airport.

The janitor earlier had seen the woman in the stall cleaning up water and dog food from the stall’s floor. The janitor was pulled away for a cleanup emergency and returned to the bathroom 20 minutes later where she found Tywinn in the trash container, along with a companion vest, collar, rabies tag, a dog travel bag and a bone-shaped dog tag with the woman’s name and phone number, investigators said.

Airport surveillance cameras captured the woman speaking for 15 minutes to a Latam Airlines agent with the dog in tow, walking into a bathroom near the ticketing area with the dog and exiting the bathroom without Tywinn less than 20 minutes later. The woman then went outside the terminal building, reentered a short time later, passed through security and boarded the Colombia-bound plane, the report said.

Authorities said the woman had been told she could not bring her dog aboard because she did not have the proper paperwork. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, dogs traveling from the U.S. to Colombia must be accompanied by a veterinarian-issued health certificate and a rabies vaccination certificate.

The dog was identified by its implanted microchip and a necropsy determined that Tywinn had been drowned. U.S. Customs and Border Protection also confirmed to detectives that the woman had boarded a flight to Bogota, Colombia, and then flew to Ecuador. …

I’m at a loss for words on how to describe this incident other than a vile act committed by human garbage.

LATAM correctly informed the passenger that she couldn’t just travel with an animal to a foreign country. There are strict agriculture laws when it comes to traveling with pets internationally. How she wouldn’t know this is completely beyond me.

But what kind of person would see it as a reasonable remedy actually to kill a pet and then go her merry way? Abandoning the animal would be horrible as well, but at least someone would take care of the dog, and he might find a better home eventually.

Someone who does this is a clear danger to society. How she can be set free for $5000 bail is beyond me. I wouldn’t be surprised if something else happens in the interim. This is clearly psychotic, dangerous behavior. Who says she wouldn’t do to a human what she did in a split second to this poor dog?

Conclusion

A woman who was scheduled to fly out of Orlando Airport was denied at the airline counter as she didn’t have sufficient documentation for her pet dog. Rather than just boarding the animal at a pet hotel or making other arrangements, she chose to kill the dog in the most cruel way in an airport bathroom, leaving the remains in a garbage bag together with identifying information such as dog tags and obviously the microchip.

Hopefully, the courts will do the right thing and throw the book at this awful individual. She shouldn’t even be walking free right now, this is truly the stuff serial killers are made of.

Aggravated animal cruelty is a third-degree felony under Florida criminal law 828.12, and carries a maximum penalty of up to 5 years in prison. A conviction for this offense also carries a potential fine of up to $10,000 and the possibility of being ordered to undergo psychological counseling and anger management.

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