Jerome Francis saw him there that night giving his daughter CPR, futilely trying to save her life. His son already was dead. Driving home that night, Francis said he happened upon the scene as the first ambulance arrived.

"He said to me 'I killed my children,' and I didn't understand what he meant," said Francis. "He said: 'I let them ride on a 4-wheeler.' "

"If you see one of these animals, leave it alone," he said. "Call animal control."

Students applauded their school's efforts to get the word out.

Erin Roon, a freshman nursing student from Augusta, is an animal lover with a cat at home.

"If I see a cat, my first instinct is to pet it," said Roon, 18. "Not anymore."

She couldn't afford to pay the $852 in misdemeanor fines she had accumulated, so Municipal Court Judge George Barron put Byrd on probation and allowed her to pay the fines in 10 monthly installments.
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Byrd, who is unemployed and receives food stamps and spotty child support payments, couldn't pay the fines, so she stopped showing up for her probation meetings. Eventually, she was arrested for violating her probation, and Barron sentenced her to 25 days in jail.