Cinderella is one of 11 animals to make it out alive from a small Naval Base Guam house, where rescuers, law enforcement, and public health officials found 40 starving and reportedly tortured dogs and cats. Several carcasses also were found in the home, which has since been declared a biohazard, according to witnesses who have agreed to speak with Kandit on condition of anonymity.
Cinderella is a kitten whose tail was burned, and who now is living with an injury to her left eye.
“We think they were trying to do something with both her eyes, because the vet said there’s also damage to her right eye,” one of the source witnesses told us, on condition of anonymity. The witness’s reference to “they” is to a couple; a military servicewoman who reportedly worked at Naval Hospital Guam and her dependent husband who lived in the unit. They allegedly were arrested by base police after a civilian animal rescuer with base access found out about the dying animals and made a report. According to two of the witnesses, the woman has been relocated to a San Diego base, but her husband was released from jail and is roaming the streets of the island.
“I don’t know how or why no one else reported what was happening,” another witness said. “You could smell the decay and the stench from your car.”
Found in the military home were hospital medical tools and supplies that the witnesses believe the home’s two occupants had used to experiment on and perhaps torture some of the animals they had hoarded. Parts of animals were found in a freezer, one witness said, adding that carcasses also were found throughout the housing unit.
“The tiles were supposed to be white, but almost every square inch of the floor was covered in feces, urine, and whatever else,” one of the witnesses said.
A source familiar with the case said Naval Base Guam officials involved professionals from the Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services and the Guam Police Department.
“The Guam Police Department was involved with documenting and processing the scene in this case,” GPD spokesman Norman Analista confirmed, however he added, “Since the incident occurred in a military facility we are not the lead in the investigation, if any were to occur. We do not have additional releasable information.”
Kandit reached out to DPHSS director Therese Arriola through WhatsApp message communication. She has not responded as of the publication of this story, though we must note that we reached out to her on a Sunday.
According to the witnesses who spoke to Kandit, a rescuer took seven animals from the base home, and another 33 were surrendered to the animal facility in Yigo, which is run by Guam Animals In Need, or GAIN. All of the animals were malnourished, many of the puppies had parvo, and some were starving, one of the witnesses said. That witness said that all but four of the 33 surrendered to GAIN had to be euthanized.
The seven animals taken by the civilian rescuer reportedly are recovering, mostly under the care of a civilian veterinarian and his staff.
“This is unreal,” one of the witnesses said. “This is something you only see in horror movies.”
A post made anonymously recently to the Facebook page Guam Military Spouses states the following about the incident:
“YOU KNEW.
To the neighbors of the couple on Inlet Street, you knew!
To the person living at #7 Inlet, YOU KNEW!
To the Army veterinarian across the street, you knew!!
Just pulling up to the curb before the car door even opened, the overwhelming stench was apparent.
Feces covered the front yard.
Animals cried out in pain and from starvation and all the while, YOU KNEW!!
Those animals suffered horribly all the while you knew. They were lying in their own feces and urine and shoved in tight spaces all while you knew.
The old adage, if you see something, say something absolutely rings true here. How many would it take for you to take a minute from your busy day and make a call? 50, 100, 200 animals suffering at the hands of these monsters?? What if kids were involved? Would you have spared a minute from your busy day to make a call then?
ONE CALL!! All I made was ONE F’ING CALL and this all ended for these helpless animals that would have been treated better if they were left on the streets!
Maybe Karen is not such a bad person to have around after all…”
