MAINE -- On Friday, some of our readers asked a very good question: Why was Carrie Landry’s pit bull returned to her?
According to eyewitnesses — including Landry’s 29-year-old sister Marilyn Pinkham — Landry’s dog attacked a young girl in Lewiston’s Kennedy Park on Aug. 18, tearing a chunk of flesh from the child’s inner thigh. The dog was neither licensed nor vaccinated.
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This week, Landry of Auburn and Pinkham of Lewiston were both charged in connection with the attack (Pinkham with allowing the dog to roam at large and Landry with failure to get her dog licensed and vaccinated), and the dog was returned to Landry.
While returning the animal may be acceptable in another case, it is not so here.
Landry and Pinkham both told the Sun Journal that neither of them is to blame for the attack. They both said the 11-year-old child who was bitten was teasing the dog, and wouldn’t stop holding out her hand to the leashed animal.
They said that, at some point, the dog was goaded to attack the girl.
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| Carrie Landry's myspace profile pic |
Both women also said the girl exaggerated her wounds, and that she was barely bleeding after the animal was pulled off her. That is simply not the case. The girl’s family supplied the Sun Journal with photos of her injury, an image so gory it was not published.
The fact that the sisters are so adamant about their total lack of responsibility here is enough to suggest that they will not be responsible for this twitchy dog in the future.
Whose child will be attacked next?
(Sun Journal - September 2, 2011)
Pair charged in dog attack
MAINE — A pair of local women have been ordered to appear in court on charges stemming from a dog attack in Kennedy Park last month.
Marilyn Pinkham, 29, of Lewiston, was summoned on a charge of allowing a dog to roam at large. Her sister, 36-year-old Carrie Landry, of Auburn, was charged with failure to get her dog licensed and vaccinated.
Landry is the owner of the dog, police said. On Aug. 17, Pinkham took the animal, a pit bull mix, to Kennedy Park where it slipped off its leash.
While the dog was loose, police said, it attacked an 11-year-old girl, biting her on the legs. The dog was eventually pulled off the girl, who was taken to Central Maine Medical Center where she received 10 stitches to close a wound.
According to Animal Control Officer Wendell Strout, the dog was placed under observation. It has since been returned to Landry, who has agreed to have her pet licensed and vaccinated, Strout said.
(Sun Journal - Sep 2, 2011)
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