Posted on 06/07/2017 8:47:42 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
A 12-year-old Herkimer girl is still recovering a week after she was viciously attacked by two pit bulls as she waited for her school bus.
The incident happened on May 31, when the girl was with other children waiting at a bus stop on North Main Street in Herkimer, about 15 miles east of Utica.
According to Herkimer police, one of the dogs latched onto the victim's arm and violently flung her into the air and back down to the ground, breaking her ulna and radius bones and causing severe puncture wounds.
Herkimer firefighters treated the girl at the scene, and took her to the St. Elizabeth Campus of the Mohawk Valley Health System for emergency surgery. She will likely require additional surgery in the future, police said.
Police determined that at no time did the victim or the other children antagonize or approach the dogs.
They learned that the dogs' owner, Aaron Brown, 25, of Herkimer, did not have licenses for the pit bulls.
Brown was charged with Dangerous Dog, Unregistered Dog and Failure to Restrain under the Department of Agriculture and Markets. Police also charged him with misdemeanor reckless endangerment.
Brown voluntarily handed over the animals.
Brown also had an active arrest warrant in St. Johnsville for Criminal Trespass. He was arraigned in Herkimer Village Court and turned over to the St. Johnsville Police Department.
Where is Chad when you need him? He used to post the daily pit bull attack threads before he got banned. I liked his threads.
I think that was Chet.
Ironically, my daughter is terrified of dogs. She even had to see a therapist about it. All dogs except the pit bull next door. I don’t think the dog knows it is a pit.
“Good Dog!!”
“Main St where mostly thugs, criminals, drug addicts,and sexual perverts live. “
Oh, man really ? I used to go diamond mining there all the time as a kid. I would like to take my daughter there to continue the tradition.
I guess I’ll just stay on the KOA and never leave.
It’s always the owners. I have a Staffordshire Terrier, a “pit bull” breed. We trained him from puppyhood, be we keep him in a fenced yard, inside the house or on a lead.
This idiot raised dogs without proper training and was negligent in letting them get free. He needs to go to jail, and unfortunately the dogs should be put down.
Feed him to the dogs
Some people, like this guy here, are just too stupid to figure out if they own a dog, any dog, they're responsible for the dog. End of story.
I was bit twice when I was young, one was a cute little yapper and the other a mid size mix. It got me going over a fence, the dog jumped and got my hand...I was cutting through his yard. That night I was thinking I was going to start foaming at the mouth and have rabies by morning. Didn't tell anyone because I wasn't supposed to be there.
Main St where mostly thugs, criminals, drug addicts,and sexual perverts live.
Just North Main St for about 2 blocks from where Brian’s Deli use to be to the Courthouse. Everywhere else is normal.
He was one of the best!
Thanks for the correction. I was dobting I got the name right.
Point still stands. He had a great pit bull watch going.
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