Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Virginia: Felony charges filed in Onancock pit bull attack

VIRGINIA -- The owner of two pit bulls that attacked a pair of sisters at their school bus stop Jan. 4 has been charged with two felony counts.

Edna Lenae Parker, 38, of Circle Drive near Onancock was arrested Jan. 23 and charged with owning a vicious dog and committing "a willful act or omission in the care, control of containment of such animal so gross, wanton, and culpable as to show a reckless disregard for human life and was the proximate cause of such animal attacking and causing serious injury to a person," according to the section of Virginia law cited.


Parker was released the same day after posting $2,000 bond. Arraignment is set for Feb. 3 and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 29 in Accomack County General District Court.

She also was charged with two civil violations for owning a vicious dog in relation to the same incident.


Additionally, Parker was found guilty in January of four misdemeanor charges of allowing an animal to run at large related to incidents on Dec. 25, Dec. 28 and Jan. 1, according to General District Court records.

The dogs, described in court records as a grey and white male pit bull and a brindle female pit bull, have been destroyed after they were held for the required period, Accomack County Sheriff Todd Godwin said.


Mariana Hernandez, 11, a Nandua Middle School student, was taken to Children's Hospital of King's Daughters with injuries to her legs and buttocks and required surgery to her right leg after the male dog attacked her while she and her sister, Victoria Hernandez, 17, were waiting for the school bus that Monday morning.

Victoria Hernandez tried to fight off the male dog as it attacked her sister and eventually the dog let go, but the 17-year-old also was bitten by the female dog during the incident.

(Delmarva Daily Times - Feb 1, 2016)

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