Posted on 06/03/2010 10:10:51 PM PDT by Chet 99
UPDATED: 9:04 pm EDT June 3, 2010
KOKOMO, Ind. -- A 9-year-old Howard County girl critically injured by a pit bull over the weekend died at an Indianapolis hospital on Thursday, police said.
The attack happened in the 4600 block of East County Road 200 South on Saturday, said Howard County Sheriff Marty Talbert.
The girl, Savannah Gragg, underwent surgery at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, but died Thursday afternoon.
Police said that Savannah was opening a door at the home to let the dog outside when it jumped on her and knocked her to the floor, biting her on the neck and shaking her violently.
"The child suffered a lacerated trachea, which resulted in a lack of oxygen to the brain," Talbert said in a news release Thursday evening. "Doctors determined the child was brain dead shortly after 3:30 p.m. Thursday."
Family members told police that the dog had never shown aggression before.
(Excerpt) Read more at theindychannel.com ...
More than 200 women in the United States kill their children every year according to aaanet.org
New stories about parents who kill their children continue to mesmerize, shock and terrify the community each time they are reported. Although filicide (child murder) is uncommon, it’s a leading cause of child death in developed countries. Compared to other developed nations, the United States has the highest rate of child homicide. When a child is murdered, the perpetrators are most likely one of the child’s parents. In fact, children under the age of 5 in the United States are more likely to be killed by their parents than anyone else, according to FBI crime statistics: 57%. Family friends/acquaintances accounted for 30% and other family members for 8%. Stranger homicides account for the other 5%The children who are at the greatest risk are younger than 6 months old.
There have been many studies on maternal filicide, but few for paternal killers. However, there are striking differences on the motives and methods of killing between the genders. In the United States, women commit two crimes as frequently as men. The first is shoplifting. The second is the murder of their children. Women, who commit 13% of all violent crimes, kill their children at the same rate as men. Annually, more than 200 women will take the life of their child or children.
Child Molester Statistics
“The serial killer has the same personality characteristics as the sex offender against children”
-Dr. Mace Knapp, Nevada State Prison Psychologist.
• “There are 400,000 registered sex offenders in the United States, and an estimated 80 to 100,000 of them are missing. They’re supposed to be registered, but we don’t know where they are and we don’t know where they’re living.
- Ernie Allen, President of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Childrento co-anchor Hannah Storm on The Early Show
• The most serious and chronic offenders often show signs of antisocial behavior as early as the preschool years.
- (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) (was in Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Nov 1998 OJJDP: U.S. Department of Justice)
• Dr. Gene Abel estimates that between 1% and 5% of our population molest children
-CNN Specials Transcript #454-Thieves of Childhood.
• Nearly all the offenders in sexual assaults reported to law enforcement were male (96%).
- Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement, 7/00, NCJ 182990, U.S. Department of Justice
• Overall, 23% of sexual assault offenders were under the 18 and 77% were adults - Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement,
7/00, NCJ 182990, U.S. Department of Justice
• 40% of the offenders of victims under age 6 were themselves juveniles. A similar proportion (39%) of offenders of victims ages 6 through 11 were also juveniles. For older juvenile victims, the proportion of juvenile offenders dropped to 27%.
- Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement,
7/00, NCJ 182990, U.S. Department of Justice
•Adults were the offender in 60% of the sexual assaults of youth under age 12. Rarely were the offenders of young victims strangers. Strangers were the offender in just 3% of sexual assaults against victims under age 6 and 5% of the sexual assault of victimizations of youth ages 6 through 11.
-Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement,
7/00, NCJ 182990, U.S. Department of Justice
• 1 in 5 violent offenders serving time in a state prison reported having victimized a child.
-BJS Survey of State Prison Inmates, 1991.
• 2/3 of all prisoners convicted of rape or sexual assault had committed their crime against a child.
-BJS Survey of State Prison Inmates, 1991.
• Acquaintance perpetrators are the most common abusers, constituting approximately 70-90% of all reported perpetrators.
-Finkelhor, D. 1994.
• 89% of child sexual assault cases involve persons known to the child, such as a caretaker or family acquaintance.
-Diana Russell Survey, 1978
• 29% of child sexual abuse offenders are relatives, 60% are acquaintances, and only 11% are strangers.
-Diana Russell, The Secret Trauma, NY:Basic Books, 1986.
• For the vast majority of child victimizers in State prison, the victim was someone they knew before the crime. 1/3 had committed their crime against their own child, about 1/2 had a relationship with the victim as a friend, acquaintance, or relative other than offspring, about 1 in 7 reported the victim to have been a stranger to them.
-BJS Survey of State Prison Inmates, 1991.
• 3/4 of the violent victimizations of children took place in either the victim’s home or the offenders home.
-BJS Survey of State Prison Inmates, 1991.
• Males are reported to be the abusers in 80-95% of cases
-Thoringer, D., et al., 1988.
• About 60% of the male survivors sampled report at least one of their perpetrators to be female.
-Mendel, 1993.
• All but 3% of offenders who committed violent crimes against children were male.
-BJS Survey of State Prison Inmates, 1991.
•The typical offender is male, begins molesting by age 15, engages in a variety of deviant behavior, and molests an average of 117 youngsters, most of whom do not report the offense.
-Dr. Gene Abel in a National Institute of Mental Health Study.
UNITED STATES
Number of abortions per year: 1.37 Million (1996)
Number of abortions per day: Approximately 3,700
Pits can’t come close to “competing” with “mommy” in the “natural born killers” department, let alone all the other potential threats to their lives.
How come Chet and Mordred aren’t posting threads every day about the true, infinitely more likely to happen horrors of abortion, pedophilia and filicide?
Does their silence on ~those~ subjects equal tacit assent?
The only difference between pit bull killings and “other” child killings is that one is committed spontaneously by a dumb animal and the other is committed by a conscious, morally aware and pre-meditated human murderer.
Really?
These took me less than 30 seconds to find.
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Labrador-Retrievers-2374/2008/5/lab-kills-dachsund.htm
http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/633/labrador-kills-child/
http://www.understand-a-bull.com/Articles/OtherBreedBites/AllDogsBite.htm
You were given the stats, before.
Forget them already?
http://www.understand-a-bull.com/Articles/OtherBreedBites/AllDogsBite.htm
Yeah.
I was kinda wondering to “*whom* the hypocritical “Prayers up!” were directed.
[Orishas?]
Interesting bible trivia:
The verse “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” *actually* says “Thou shalt not suffer a *poisoner* to live”.
Apparently, God doesn’t have much good for those who commit that cowardly sin.
Sticking with cats. The world is dangerous enough for my kids.
RIP, poor sweet darling. How utterly sad.
‘I also think they’re just plain UGLY.”
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Post a picture of yourself for us so that we may decide your ‘worth’.
[of course, I know you won’t but I *did* give you the opportunity to justify your incredibly shallow prejudice]
Bull Terriers are a very intelligent breed.
Then get your keyboard kowboy ass out in the yard with “Betty Lou” and shoot the neighbor’s dogs or stop whining about them.
Nut up or shut up.
Yet, it was totally predictable that this creature would eventually kill or seriously injure someone. That is why people have these dogs.
Shoot the dogs. Try, convict, and execute the owners for premeditated murder. These killings will not stop otherwise.
ROFLMAO. I don’t need to prove anything to you, or to anyone else here.
My second Dobe was a better pointer/retriever than my dad’s professionally trained Brittany Spaniel.
What a dog is “bred” to do and what a dog can be *trained* to do are often two diametrically opposed things.
Project much?
“That is a ROTFLMAO His lady packs, and I don’t mean BB guns.”
What’s really telling is that he makes such a big deal out of *that* piddly little “brag”.
No woman within 30 miles of me *doesn’t* have a gun and know how to use it.
My tiny little gramma was a crack shot and she was barely big enough to hold up the rifle she used on the “catamounts” who raided her chickens.
[huh...must be another genetic feature she blessed me with]
Then again, we’re self-sufficient mountain women who don’t piss ourselves when we see a “scary dog”.
Kudos for the phony laugh.
I believe we have our answer, then.
[Isn’t it funny how most people here aren’t afraid to show their real faces while others hide behind their anonymity? *Quite* telling, that.]
‘Yet, it was totally predictable that this creature would eventually kill or seriously injure someone. That is why people have these dogs.”
In the 70s, Dobermanns were the “killer breed du jour”.
Is your “psychological profile theory” the reason *I* had them?
And *still* have them?
Care to guess how many people my dogs bit or killed?
Ethanol OD.
No.
If some person randomly shoots into the air in a populated area, every day, several times a day, he may do so for years before someone is killed or seriously injured.
When such an outcome eventually does happen, he is likely to be prosecuted for several different types of homocide. The attorneys on both sides argue their points on the various charges. The jury decides "guilty" or "not guilty" on each of the various charges. Maybe he lucks out on the "intent" arguments, and gets convicted of "negligent" something or other.
"Harboring a vicious firearm" would not likely satisfy the voters in the neighborhood.
Silly question I guess but,,,I looked at your page,,,
Have you always been a woman ?...
This is so odd because I've been wanting to ask you that same question.
This is so odd because I've been wanting to ask you that same question.
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