Over the weekend, Rusk County Sheriff’s Workplace officers have been dispatched to the house of Veronica Loredo, 32, after her son known as authorities and mentioned “his mom believed he was the satan and was at present burning the household canines.”

As deputies have been en path to the scene, authorities acquired one other name from a neighbor — who mentioned {that a} lady had “simply arrived at their residence with blood on her arms and advising her dad and mom have been killed.”

Regardless of what the neighbor advised authorities, there was no official phrase from the Sheriff’s Workplace that anybody was killed. That officers did, nonetheless, discover canine stays in a hearth burning in Loredo’s entrance yard — in addition to Loredo and 4 youngsters, ages 1-11, inside a car after they bought to the scene.

“Loredo had rolled the passenger facet window and was screaming ‘Assist, assist, assist me somebody is attempting to kill me,’” reads a possible trigger affidavit, obtained by PEOPLE. The docs state Loredo was additionally “sweating profusely and had abnormally quick respiratory” and “did admit to killing their canines in entrance of her youngsters.”

She additionally allegedly had “stains on her arms constant to being uncovered to a wooden hearth,” whereas her son advised authorities his mom locked all of them within the car earlier than burning their pets within the hearth.

Loredo was arrested and charged with two felony counts of cruelty to non livestock animals, in addition to 4 counts of endangering a toddler. She’s being held on a $400,000 bond, whereas Baby Protecting Providers are additionally reportedly investigating the incident.

If you’re experiencing or witness baby abuse, name the Childhelp Nationwide Baby Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Baby or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org. For those who consider a toddler is in instant hazard, name 911.