Pit Bull Mauls Boy; Dog Euthanized
Reported By Donna M. Perry
Sun Journal Staff Writer
Mar 31, 2010 12:00 am
LIVERMORE FALLS, Maine — A pit bull that severely mauled an 11-year-old New York boy on Globe Street on Tuesday was euthanized by a veterinarian at the keeper’s request later in the day, police said. The dog had been kenneled when Jessica Anderson, 32, of Globe Street in Livermore Falls, left a 12-year-old daughter baby-sitting three children that morning, Livermore Falls police Lt. Thomas Gould said. Sometime during the morning, the dog was released from the kennel, he said. Anderson was watching the 1-year-old, brindle-and-white male named Diesel for a friend. She was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and being the keeper of a dangerous dog, Gould said.
The New York boy was visiting family friends at the residence off Souther Road when the attack occurred, Livermore Falls police officer Vern Stevens said. It was the second attack by the dog this month, he said. The boy was mauled Tuesday on both legs in the ankle area and his abdomen, Stevens said.
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