A Boy Called Police with a Horrifying Claim: His Mother Was Burning the Family Dogs

A Texas boy called 911 and told a dispatcher that his mother was currently burning the family’s two small dogs.

The 11-year-old boy contacted dispatchers around 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 17.

He also told a dispatcher that his 32-year-old mother Veronica Loredo “believed he was the devil,” according to a Rusk County Sheriff’s Office press release.

Officers responded to the residence in Henderson and allegedly found Loredo inside a vehicle with four children whose ages ranged from two to 11.

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“She had rolled the passenger side window and was screaming ‘help, help, help me someone is trying to kill me,'” according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by PEOPLE.

An officer attempted to speak to Loredo who was “sweating profusely and had abnormally fast breathing,” per the affidavit. “The defendant did admit to killing their dogs in front of her children,” it said.

The boy reportedly told officers that Loredo locked the kids inside the vehicle before grabbing the family pets and burning them in the fire.

“[Loredo] did have stains on her hands consistent to being exposed to a wood fire,” according to the affidavit.

Officers found the dog’s remains in the fire in front of the residence, per the press release.

Loredo is facing two felony counts of cruelty to non-livestock animals and four counts of endangering a child. She is being held on a $400,000 bond.