This is why we need laws to protect us from ourselves: Husband uses pit bull to terrorize wife, pit bull attacks child. Wife wants pit bull back.

MASSACHUSETTS -- The fate of Buddy, the dog of accused wife beater Joshua Grispi, was uncertain Thursday, days after the dog was quarantined for biting a Plympton boy on Sept. 27.

The 10-year-old boy was sent by ambulance to a Plymouth hospital after suffering several dog bites all over his body, said Plympton Animal Control Officer Frank Bush, who responded to a home on Forest Street in Plympton where the incident occurred last month.

“There were bites to his right leg, stomach, left ear, right arm and torso,” said Bush, who did not know the boy’s condition Thursday.

The boy’s family could not be reached for comment Thursday.

Bush said the boy had been “roughhousing and fooling around” with other children inside the home, fell off a couch, and Buddy, a Staffordshire bull terrier, bit him.

The boy’s family had been boarding the dog in Plympton since Sept. 12, Bush said.

A dangerous dog hearing for Buddy is scheduled on Oct. 16, Middleboro Animal Control Officer Jessica Gardner said in an email Thursday.

accused wife beater Joshua Grispi

“As a result of this incident and previous history of biting, the dog was quarantined,” Gardner said.

A 10-day quarantine for Buddy ended on Tuesday, but Gardner said the dog will remain in the custody of Middleboro Animal Control until the hearing next week. The hearing authority will be Middleboro Police Chief Joseph Perkins, she said.

In August, Buddy, was returned to the home of Kaitlyn Grispi, two weeks after the dog was placed in the temporary custody of Middleboro Animal Control and quarantined on Aug. 4, after police arrested her husband.

A Plymouth County grand jury last week indicted Joshua Grispi, a professional cage fighter and former Ultimate Fighting Championship competitor, on a slew of charges including domestic abuse, firearms possession, animal-cruelty, drug possession and witness intimidation after he allegedly assaulted his wife over the summer.

Grispi, 26, is being held on $200,000 cash bail in a Barnstable jail. He is scheduled to be arraigned in Brockton Superior Court on Oct. 17.

He is accused of beating his wife – and abusing their dog – in a case that one Middleboro police officer called “the worst case of domestic violence I’ve ever seen.”

Police arrested Grispi twice in four days, Aug. 1 and 4. Another search of the house found more ammunition, 20 marijuana plants, 15 grams of cocaine and two teacup pot-belly pigs being kept as pets in the basement. The dog and pigs have been put in the custody of animal control.

 Kaitlyn Grispi also informed police that “Joshua would often choke the dog unconscious after the attacks, court records show.”

Texts sent to Kaitlyn from her husband, who makes threats to choke and kill her and sic their pit bull on her again:

“UR (expletive) dead and if u even try n bring my kids into it the worse it will b for u and if u try and make a seen (sic) I’ll choke u unconscious and smash ur throat and if u get worse n run around after I’m goin to let Buddy have at u and I’ll walk out of the room.”

“Don’t cure (sic) you whore, That’s all u think abor (sic) ur a (expletive) scum bag piece of (expletive) who I’m goin enjoy choking to death.”

“U better not b bluffing about cops cuz I don’t joke ur dead when I see u… Literally. I don’t care I’m going to beat u n throw u to buddy, Ur dead.”

Kaitlyn Grispi with the dog that her husband trained to attack her

Despite the documented abuse and her reported injuries, Kaitlyn has maintained that she loves her husband and wants him back.

“This is insane. It was an argument,” she said Wednesday.

As for the dog, Buddy, Kaitlyn said Thursday that she considers her dog, Buddy, “a family member” and she wants the dog back.

“He’s a really good dog. I love my dog. I’m hoping to get him back,” she said, before declining further comment.

(Wicked Local Middleborough - October 10, 2014)(Cage Potato.com)