Miracle the German Shepherd, who was thrown from a second-story motel balcony late last year in Daytona Beach, Fla., is not returning to her former “guardian” and has found a loving forever home with a military veteran who needed a trustworthy service dog.
Miracle stayed with a foster family after the incident, and police charged her guardian at the time, Allison Murphy, with felony animal cruelty and resisting an officer with violence.
A judge has since ruled that Murphy is incapable of caring for Miracle and granted permission to permanently find her a new home, despite her former guardian’s attempt to regain custody.
Murphy must also cover Miracle’s emergency medical expenses and is banned from having animals for five years.
Deputies from the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office responded to the Motel 6 in December after receiving reports that Murphy had attacked a maid. Police body camera footage showed officers trying to intervene as Murphy lifted the dog and tossed her to the pavement below.
Officers rushed Miracle, then named Opa May, to emergency care, where veterinarians found a sewing needle lodged into her thigh and treated her for injuries from the fall.
While we’re glad that Miracle will not be returning to her former guardian, the fight for justice is not over. Murphy’s criminal case is ongoing, and she must answer for her actions.
If you haven’t yet, join more than 39,000 activists in signing Lady Freethinker’s petition urging State Attorney R.J. Larizza to prosecute this case to the fullest extent of the law, including a lifelong ban on having animals.
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Banned for only five years??? I would have banned her for life!!!! No animal deserves to be treated like this, and this woman should never ever have a pet ever again!!!
Ban Murphy from having animals for life!!
One huge thing is wrong with the ruling of the dog thrown from the balcony and that is she should NEVER EVER be allowed to own another animal. She is mental to begin with and five years from now it will be a bridge so me judge your sentencing an innocent animal possibly it its death when she gets another animal in five years. Wow the judge is mental to. Ban that winch feon ever having another animal.
People who are cruel to animals, do not deserve them and should be punished
To say this woman was a “guardian” is a joke. She was a cruel, barbaric animal abuser who is not fit to care for an earth worm.
Make sure Allison Murphy is locked up for a very long time and that she also gets mental help. She should not be allowed to go free until she does.
Allison Murphy IS NOT FIT TO HAVE ANY ANIMAL IN HER POSSESSION!! She MUST(!) be banned FOR LIFE from animal ownership. She cannot be trusted to refrain from uncontrolled violence. She is dangerous!!
This woman should be banned from being around animals for life. Once an animal abuser, always and animal abuser.
I am glad she is in a better home.
This POS should have a needle shoved into her and be tossed over a balcony.
Must never own an animal again.
I see a coward that thinks not of the injuries he inflicted a lot of pain and torture to a poor dog that did nothing and he should be banned forever to have a pet of any kind. I feel that people need to realize that they have a heart that trusting people is a trait that we need to have and love and devotion goes hand in hand, Why people take their anger out on any animal they need to pass a heaver punishment for abusers god don’t like ugly its truly sad to look at that picture and know what is going to happen and the dog doesn’t have anyone who tries to stop him I am a dog lover and it makes me sick to see any animal abused in this day and age it’s so bad the people who abused animals or leave them behind or they get old and they just don’t want to deal with it so it ends up in a pound. It’s truly sad and people need to make their dogs as family But this world and the society of today is so wrong and it needs to stop
must answer for her actions. That’s terrible !!
All animals deserves to be saved no matter the situation.
This person needs ,I
Life
I’d have her used as a TRAINING DUMMY, for the Police K-9 Unit
Unbelievable. Sadly, because smacking that POS is assault, she won’t get what she really needs. A boot up her—. I have never, willl never HIT a woman, but if I saw her doing that, I would have spent a few days in lock up.
Five years is definitely not long enough – ban Allison Murphy for life & do not EVER allow her near animals again.
This vile severe dog abusing scumbag must be put to death. A slow and agonising death for this vile cretin is essential! A five year ban on owning animals is not adequate.
So glad to hear about Miracle the dog, that person should never own an animal again & charged to the fullest extent.
All animals should be protected!
I’m posting this comment because this was on called for. I would like to see justice.
Dear Honorable Attorney LaRizza: This horrific abuse of Miracle was sickening, unconscionable and barbaric base behavior. This perp must be prosecuted to the very fullest extent. Please do what is right.
Animal abusers need to be quote “put down”.
A sewing needle found in her thigh? This woman should be banned from having animals for life, not just 5 years.
Well done to this kind gentleman. I salute you, sir.
As a long time GSD owner, I will gladly take this girl in and love her like she should. That people treat animals like this disgusts me. I want 5 minutes with that creep. some one should throw them over a balcony.
Now that’s a happy ending!
If only the abusers could be punished just as the abused the poor defenseless furry children, who I might add are protectors of the family, and home. Shame on those abusers.
I’m so glad that Miracle the German Shepard dog is now in a good new forever home as a service dog to a veteran. It’s great to read positive updates !
Banned from having animals for 5 years?????? I’ll never understand that. Do they take a quick pole to find out when those imbecilic, uneducated slime become human again?
Thank the adopter for his/her military service, and thank you for your humanity in adopting this dog!
Our grandkids deserve to know all animals, not just read about them being extinct.
While I am relieved that Miracle is in a new loving home, and that the Murphy woman is answering to the law, five years from owning a pet is not long enough. Let’s try forever for the sake of animals’ well being.