Child Killed By Dog

[Snoopy21]

Sleep peacefully baby girl.

[sandgrubber]

Fuller description can be found at

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2011/10/01/news/doc4e8672133b2e6645944751.txt?viewmode=fullstory

This case is nothing like the Victorian case. The baby was on the floor, unattended (apparently) and the dogs got out of another room. An aunt was looking after the little girl.

Reader comments tell a further story

aurie wrote on Sep 30, 2011 10:33 PM:" I'm betting the owner(s) of those dogs have rap sheets involving drugs, burglary, or violence. They should be prosecuted for animal cruelty. 3 energetic pit bulls shouldn't be confined to an apartment. Third floor? Odds are good that they didn't get walked often - too much trouble.

Maybe people should be required to get dog-owners' licenses that have to be renewed every so often. These folks aren't fit to own dogs, and no parent should take a child around that many dogs in an apartment.

If those dogs were properly raised and trained, and closely supervised, this never would have happened. Poor dogs. Sorry owners. Poor little girl. "

Neighborhood mess wrote on Sep 30, 2011 11:30 PM:

" This whole neighborhood is turning into a ghetto. I have a friend (wish she'd move) who unfortunatley lives on the next street. This whole neighborhood is loaded with pit-bulls and other attack dogs.

The absentee landlords that live elsewhere are also to blame. Most of these drug dealing, pitbull owning

thugs have police records and the owners don't care anymore. Just get that apartment rented..who cares cause I don't live in West Haven anyway.

The owner of the house is responsible, the owner of the dogs are responsible and most of all this little baby girl's parents are responsible. She didn't have a chance. She was surrounded by idiots. God bless her and may she rest in peace. Poor little innocent angel, what a horrible way to die. Thug brand dogs for thug brain owners.

West Haven should enforce some new zoning rules, three family homes should not have that many crazy dogs in it anyway. Where do you think all that waste from them ends up? Oh those poor sanitation workers. Mayor Picard, man up and do the right thing. That whole neighborhood is dangerous now..either no dogs in an apartment, or limit how many killer dogs in one apartment. "

[Guest Arcane]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/dog-owner-charged-over-fatal-mauling-of-ayen-chol/story-e6frea8c-1226181430865

THE owner of a dog which fatally mauled a four-year-old girl to death has been charged.

Ayen Chol was killed on August 17 when a pit bull entered the St Albans house where she was staying.

Police have charged a 57-year-old St Alban’s man on summons under the Domestic Animals Act.

A police spokeswoman said the man was charged to appear at the Sunshine Magistrate’s Court on December 6 in relation to the attack.

"He has been charged with eight offences under the Domestic Animals Act,’’ she said.

The charges include owning a dog which attacks a person causing death, two counts of owning a dog which attacks a person causing serious injury, three counts of owning a dog that chases/worries a person, owning a dog found at large and failing to register a dog.

Edited October 31, 2011 by Arcane

[Linda K]

interestingly enough, talking to our council ranger today (not Brimbank), who said that under the new guides, the dog that did this would not be classed as a restricted breed as it was too big and too fat to fit the standard. She also said that she will be busy for the next 6 months following up all the calls they have gotten for dogs dobbed in within their area, but most of the calls they have done have involved dogs which hadn't been registerd at all, let alone as an attempt to disguise the breed, housed in appalling conditions (sometimes kept under the home or in a cage all the time, underweight to the point of emaciation, and very poorly socialised, has had dogs thrown over the fence at them and the owners then drive off etc, and that when they do these calls, they need to go with warrant and police officer, as they have been threatened - in our area a lot of the people who have these dogs are involved in drugs or other things, so not the best type to have angry at you - she could count on one hand the no she has gone to that have been well kept and well socialised, that are loved family members, as those are not the ones she has been getting the call about. The good thing is that she also said they do have a followup protocol they use to weed out vexacious complaints, so they are not acting purely on the basis of a call without any previous attempts at problem notification. She also said that in the Ayen case, the actual owner of the dog, the 31 year old, fled the state after retrieving the dog and returning it back to his home, fled, leaving his elderly father to front the charges. So wonder what bearing that will have if he is not the actual dog owner, but the one left holding the bag.

[sandgrubber]

interestingly enough, talking to our council ranger today (not Brimbank), who said that under the new guides, the dog that did this would not be classed as a restricted breed as it was too big and too fat to fit the standard. She also said that she will be busy for the next 6 months following up all the calls they have gotten for dogs dobbed in within their area, but most of the calls they have done have involved dogs which hadn't been registerd at all, let alone as an attempt to disguise the breed, housed in appalling conditions (sometimes kept under the home or in a cage all the time, underweight to the point of emaciation, and very poorly socialised, has had dogs thrown over the fence at them and the owners then drive off etc, and that when they do these calls, they need to go with warrant and police officer, as they have been threatened - in our area a lot of the people who have these dogs are involved in drugs or other things, so not the best type to have angry at you - she could count on one hand the no she has gone to that have been well kept and well socialised, that are loved family members, as those are not the ones she has been getting the call about. The good thing is that she also said they do have a followup protocol they use to weed out vexacious complaints, so they are not acting purely on the basis of a call without any previous attempts at problem notification. She also said that in the Ayen case, the actual owner of the dog, the 31 year old, fled the state after retrieving the dog and returning it back to his home, fled, leaving his elderly father to front the charges. So wonder what bearing that will have if he is not the actual dog owner, but the one left holding the bag.

Shocking that the owner skipped and left his father to hold the bag.

I've been wondering why we haven't seen pictures of the dog . . . and whether a pit bull x mastiff, which some reports say, would fall outside the VIC visual standard for 'restricted breed' dogs.

If this information is true, why isn't it making it to the press? Have the powers that be been suppressing it?

[Linda K]

Possibly because it shows that what the gov is doing was purely knee jerk and would not have prevented this, which would be very much egg on face for them, and the same reason that dog attacks where it is not a dog that fits the press ideal (ie "pit bull"), gets very little press. This dog being a mastiff cross I think I heard mentioned once, and then was buried under all Big Teds trumpeting about how his new laws were the answer to everything. As the Herald Sun is very much a lib friendly paper, I don't think they would be about to publish anything to make the Libs look bad. Our ranger agreed that the speed they put this through, and the very broad "standard" meant anything that ranged in look from a boxer to a Staffy or anything in-between could be made to fit the standard if so desired.