Outrage in San Francisco where a young boy was mauled to death by the family pit bulls . . . . the controversy centers around comments from the mother.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/061205_nw_pit_bull.html
Is she culpable in her son's death? Should she be charged?
She locked her young son in her basement while she went out on errands and told him not to go into the rest of the house because she felt her pit bulls were dangerous.
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I put him down there, with a shovel on the door," Faibish said in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. "And I told him: `Stay down there until I come back.' Typical Nicky, he wouldn't listen to me."
"It was Rex. I know it in my heart," Faibish said. "My younger dog (Ella) was in heat and anyone who came near her, Rex saw as a threat. He may have been trying to mate. It was a freak accident. It was just the heat of the moment."
Faibish returned mid-afternoon to discover her son's lifeless body in a bedroom. He was covered in blood from several wounds, including a major head injury.
"It's Nicky's time to go," Faibish said. "When you're born you're destined to go and this was his time."
"I'm not mad at my dogs," Faibish said. "I just love them to death."
Cowperson