Overview
- The Sixth Provincial Criminal Corporate Prosecutor’s Office of Lima Norte opened a preliminary case against Óscar Balarezo Ávalos, 66, for alleged abandonment and cruelty to animals.
- Prosecutor Ronald Eduardo Caballero Benites ordered urgent steps that include collecting surveillance and neighborhood footage, taking statements, obtaining the dog’s clinical history, identifying the veterinarian, and exhuming the body for forensics.
- Video circulating on social media shows the man attempting to asphyxiate his bulldog, Susu, on the 400 block of Avenida Contisuyo in Independencia as witnesses intervened.
- Police reports indicate the dog did not die at the park and was later euthanized at a veterinary clinic in Los Olivos.
- Animal-rights groups rallied outside the suspect’s residence to demand a sentence of up to five years, and police detained one demonstrator during the protest.