A Seaside Heights, N.J. man has been charged with beating a dog to death while her owner was away, authorities said Wednesday. Nicholas Piccolino, 33, told the dog's owner that he dropped the pet while he was cleaning her, but a necropsy showed the dog, a 10-year-old female Bichon Frise name Booshu, suffered multiple blunt force injuries to her head and body which contributed to her death, authorities said.

The charge against Piccolino on Wednesday was filed the same day investigators received the necropsy report and finished interviewing witnesses, said Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato and NJ Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals president Steve Shatkin.

Piccolino was alone with the dog around 9:55 p.m.  on Aug. 19 when a resident of the house who was upstairs heard several loud bangs and the sound of a dog yelping downstairs, Shatkin and Coronato said.

Nicholas Piccolino, 33, told the dog's owner that he dropped the pet while he was cleaning her, but a necropsy showed the dog, a 10-year-old female Bichon Frise name Booshu, suffered multiple blunt force injuries to her head and body which contributed to her death, authorities said.

The charge against Piccolino on Wednesday was filed the same day investigators received the necropsy report and finished interviewing witnesses, said Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato and NJ Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals president Steve Shatkin.

 A Seaside Heights, N.J. man has been charged with beating a dog to death while her owner was away, authorities said Wednesday. Nicholas Piccolino, 33, told the dog's owner that he dropped the pet while he was cleaning her, but a necropsy showed the dog, a 10-year-old female Bichon Frise name Booshu, suffered multiple blunt force injuries to her head and body which contributed to her death, authorities said.

The charge against Piccolino on Wednesday was filed the same day investigators received the necropsy report and finished interviewing witnesses, said Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato and NJ Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals president Steve Shatkin.

Piccolino was alone with the dog around 9:55 p.m.  on Aug. 19 when a resident of the house who was upstairs heard several loud bangs and the sound of a dog yelping downstairs, Shatkin and Coronato said.

Piccolino told Booshu's owner that something was wrong with the dog and the owner later found her pet dead on the bathroom floor, according to the investigation by NJSPCA Detective Sgt. Larry Donato and Seaside Heights police.

Piccolino claimed Booshu "dirtied" herself in her crate and that he dropped her while he was cleaning her, Coronato and Shatkin said.

Booshu was taken to Red Bank Animal Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival, authorities said.

Piccolino was charged with torment, torture, unnecessarily or cruelly beating a living animal resulting in death, a third-degree offense

He was being held in the Ocean County Jail in Toms River in lieu of $35,000 bail.

                                                               Author:

                                                   Mary Ann Spoto, NJ.COM

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Please, sign this petition demanding a, STIFF SENTENCE for this nefarious  individual, should he be found guilty as charged. It is beyond comprehension, that a person could perpetrate such malevolent behavior against a defenseless pet. Frankly, it is a violation of criminal law, moreover a direct violation of our natural law, as well. We must not see this man slip through the system of jurisprudence unscathed. It would be a mutation of our laws, if he did not receive some form of punishment for this heinous crime. Please, do the next right thing, sign this petition. We owe it to Booshu, and the many other victims in regard to this senseless act of depravity. It is the only  small amount of "justice" that Booshu will receive, albeit insufficient justice indeed. Do the next right thing, please sign now. Thank you, Mr. Rick Allen

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                      Ms. Mary Ann Spoto, NJ.Com, SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

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