SAN DIEGO, CA -- A San Diego County judge Wednesday ordered a mother and daughter whose two pit bulls reportedly attacked their 75-year-old next-door neighbor not to have any contact with the elderly woman or her husband.
Judge David Szumowski granted the no contact order requested by prosecutors against Alba Medina Cornelio, 39, and her 19-year-old daughter, Carla Ramirez Cornelio.Alba Cornelio remains held on $350,000 bail while her daughter is free on bail.
Defense attorney Donovan Dunnion said the elder Cornelio has an immigration “hold” but has been living in the United States for 19 years. [NOTE: Are they trying to nicely say that he has been an illegal alien residing in the United States - and breeding pit bulls - for almost 20 years?? If my leg and arm were amputated by the illegal alien's pit bulls which lived next door to me, I would sue the federal government for one billion dollars for refusing to enforce the immigration laws of this country. If this person weren't in the United States illegally, he would not have been breeding pit bulls next door to me. Ergo, I would not have been mauled by the illegal alien's pit bulls and I would still have my leg and my arm.]
The defendants are charged with two felony counts of having a mischievous animal that causes serious bodily injury and six misdemeanor code violations, including failing to protect the public from a dog and owning a dangerous dog.
They face more than three years in prison if convicted.
Deputy District Attorney Makenzie Harvey told the judge last week that Emako Mendoza was attacked in her fenced-in yard right after she went outside to get the morning paper on June 18.
Mendoza had her left arm amputated below the elbow and her left leg amputated below the knee, Harvey said.
“The dogs, we believe, got through a gap that’s in the defendants’ fence, and then pushed through some barbed wire that the victim had in place to sort of cover the gap on their portion of the yard,” the prosecutor said.
Harvey contends the defendants knew they had dangerous dogs because the dogs escaped from their yard last Christmas Day and attacked a man who was walking his puppy.
The puppy was badly injured and the man was bitten, Harvey said.
After the latest attack, Alba Cornelio allowed animal service officers to euthanize her two 6-year-old pit bulls and their 3-week-old puppies.
The next court hearing is scheduled for July 13.
(SWRNN - July 6, 2011)
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