It was thought that Bohdan Suprun might have an infection or pneumonia, but when antibiotics didn't help him, he knew it was far more serious.

"What they did—and the way they did it—suggests something broken inside," Jessica Estrada, 42, told Newsweek after witnessing the horrifying moment.

There was hardly a dry eye left as the shelter staff all gathered to wave Farah off before starting her next chapter in life.