75 Days in Jail For Sycamore Street Hell House Woman
Samantha Damron, the vet tech, arrested in connection with a horrifying animal cruelty case, will spend just 75 days in jail after a judge sentenced her today in Scioto County Common Pleas Court. Damron will receive credit for 8 days already served in jail. She’ll also have to pay almost $7,000 in restitution and is forbidden from owning pets.
Damron pleaded guilty to 10 counts of animal cruelty back in December. You’ll recall that Damron was napping next to the decomposing corpses of 20 dogs when a Portsmouth City Health investigator discovered assigned to investigate the stench coming from the home and made the disturbing discovery at a Sycamore Street home.
Nothing could have prepared the inspector and the officers who responded to the scene for what they discovered. The scene was so disgusting that even jaded police officers became physically ill.
Police found twenty dead German shepherd/shepherd mixes inside the home, along with 28 living animals. Samantha Damron was napping beside the liquefying corpses of the animals.
Unbelievably, Damron was a veterinary technician. Damron frequently shared pictures of groups of dogs on her social media. Additionally, she had several posts criticizing others for taking poor care of their animals. Damron called one breeder a “dumpster fire.” Damron also spoke out about the amount of stress that veterinary care providers suffer.
She also seemed to have an interest in animal skeletons, sharing a post from a site offering skeletons of kittens and puppies and other collectibles related to dead animals.