Andrea Rosebrock 
An 8 month-old little Pomeranian puppy was the innocent and defenseless victim of a domestic breakup of a gay relationship in Philadelphia. Fox, the puppy, drowned and laid out in a frying pan surrounded by spices, was the scene 25 yr-old Nafis Aziz, the dog’s owner, came home to.
Aziz and now, ex-boyfirend, 21 yr-old John Newman, had been having problems. Aziz was getting harassed, threatening phone calls, his apartment broken into three time in as many months, laptops stolen and the culmination of this harassment, the brutal killing of his puppy and all of it has been traced back to Newman who is being held at the Delaware County prison on $50,000 bail.
This past Monday Newman was arrested on charges of theft, receiving stolen property, cruelty to animals, criminal mischief, harassment and making terroristic threats as well as burglarizing Aziz’s residence in September and October.
Police responded to a call to Aziz’s apartment where they found the drowned dog laid out in the living room surrounded by spices.
“Right on the living-room floor in a frying pan with all types of salts and peppers and oregano around it in different bottles,” Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood Sr. said.
“It’s the worst case I’ve seen – to take a little puppy and drown it,” Chitwood said, referring to local animal-abuse incidents. “He never fried it or cooked it, but it was in the pan.”
“It certainly was ritualistic, depraved and sick,” Chitwood said of the dog-drowning. “Did he put it on fire? No, but it was vicious and vengeful. You could see that whoever did it really, really hated the complainant, to do something like that. He really wanted to hurt the complainant.”
This is yet another example of how abusers in domestic situations prey on the innocent and defenseless, too often pets and children are the victims and in this case the harassment escalated to the point that an innocent was killed in a cruel and brutal way.
Newman needs some serious help and he needs it somewhere where he cannot be a danger to anyone else… behind bars, for along time!
Please tell me that there is a sane judge that will give this sicko the punishment he needs and get justice for a little innocent dog! This is depraved indifference of the worse kind! It is hard to believe that there are people like this walking our streets.
Unbelievable! What kind of a sick SOB does something like this? This is the kind of person who deserves to get the Same treatment he gave out.
This is outrageous! What is wrong with people in this world? I hope that sob rots in hell for what he has done.
How much sicker can people in this get …..
I say put this SOB in a frying pan and he doesn’t deserve any spices and just cook him. This is so disgusting that I wish I knew where he lived. I would be in that courtroom so fast to protest and would take many people with me. There are sick people out there because the laws are so laxed to protect them. More petitions need to get around so this government will change the laws. What if they had a child? Would have have done the same? I say fry him alive, just so he can feel what he put that poor little dog through. If severe punishment were implemented then people may back off of doing such awful things. As long as they get a slap on the wrist, it isn’t going to stop. Anyone that commits a crime that includes permanent harm or death should suffer in the same way. This is the only way we are going to get through to these MF offenders.
We can only hope, Nancy, we can only hope. I know he has a first hearing on Monday… hopefully will be able to get some info and keep track of things. Will be sure to pass along anything I find out and know that if anyone finds out anything, they will too.
Wish I could agree with you about it being hard to believe that there are people like this walking the street but we’ve all seen too much of it.
D.