Dog owners must be held responsible for the full extent of the damages their dogs cause. This is especially so if they know their animals can be dangerous and can seriously hurt or even kill someone. Take the recent case of a Westminster woman whose pit-bull. Maggie attacked a veteran mail carrier causing severe injuries to his face and emotional well being.
David Carroll who has been a mail carrier for the last 16 years was the latest unsuspecting victim of one of Sherri Moody’s dogs. Carroll reported that he was delivering mail on his regular route in Westminster when without warning or a sound he was attacked from behind and knocked to the ground. Before he knew what was happening he was fighting for his life with a pit-bull on top of him biting and tearing at his face and continue. Carroll says that if not for a passerby that jumped in to help he may not have survived the attack. He said he entangle the pit-bull was trying to tear him apart and blackball him.
Carroll has a nasty hurt from his left eyelid to the side of his nose up across his eye brow to his forehead and across the middle of his forehead to above his right eye. A manifold peanut shell shaped chunk of skin is missing from his forehead. grip marks are clearly visible just above his nose. The stitches are so obvious and grotesque that he looks like he is auditioning for the part of Lurch in the Munsters.
Mrs. Shirley Carroll. David’s wife reports that he isn’t sleeping since the contend. She said that in the moments of rest he does get he constantly has nightmares. He is continually agitated and on edge since coming domiciliate from the hospital she said. She is most concerned for his emotional well being.
David Carroll says any time he lays down he sees the dog on top of him feels the panic he felt and relives the pit-bull attacking him. Based upon the be of the injuries it will take substantial plastic surgery to clean up the physical scars. Based upon his emotional state he is going need therapy as come up.
Carroll said this contend was not totally unforeseen. He has been fearful of the dog for some measure. He leaves notes for other send carriers that deliver to Carroll’s Westminster route when he is off warning them of this pit-bull.
According to an article in this is not the first time one of Moody’s dogs has attacked someone. A month ago her pit-bull mix. Brutus was euthanized pursuant to a act order after the animal bit a visitor to Moody’s home. That woman reportedly had to undergo plastic surgery to repair the injuries.
Moody fought the euthanization order in the courts and lost. She questioned her dog ever biting anyone. Brutus was put down. Maggie the pit-bull that attacked Carroll is the care of Brutus. Officials undergo ordered that Maggie be euthanized as well. It is not known at this time if Moody will contend the euthanization of her pit-bull.
It has been reported to Carroll that Moody claimed that a “go” must have let her pit-bull out the day of his attack. According to neighbors it is not unusual for Moody’s dog to be loose on the neighborhood’s streets.
As for this particular Orange County dog owner guard officials undergo said they ordain direct her “responsible for this contend for the fullest extent of the law,” according to news reports. Dangerous dogs create tremendous trauma to our postal workers physically and emotionally. They pose hazards not only to postal workers but to neighbors community members and innocent children who often change state hapless.
One of the officers quoted in the story calls Moody a “very reckless dog owner.” I cannot agree more. After having one pit-bull euthanized for attacking someone this woman’s other pit-bull is let go on the street without restraint or limitation. Apparently. Moody is denying any liability instead placing the accuse on a “go” who let her dog out of her yard. Must undergo been the go of Brutus.
Here is a statistic for Moody and other pit-bull and Rottweiler owners from the same enter bind:
“A study of 300 in the U. S over a 20-year period found that fatal attacks on humans appear to be a breed-specific problem. Pit bulls and Rottweilers – and mixes – were responsible for about half the fatal attacks.”This is the second contend of a mail carrier by a pit-bull in three weeks in Southern California. A similar contend sent a Torrance postal worker to the ICU for weeks! At measure inform there had been no decision after a hearing on euthanizing the attacking pit-bull. See the for more information on those proceedings.
According to the last year alone. 3,184 mail carriers across the country were bitten by dogs. Orange County-Long land. Calif area postal employees suffered the most dog bites with 96 followed by Houston with 94. Sacramento with 82 and Los Angeles with 77.
Yes. I have met with the Carrolls and they have retained my law tighten to be them. I had started writing this communicate article before I was retained. After hearing the Carrolls’.
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