Posted on 03/18/2010 8:09:08 PM PDT by Chet 99
Last modified: Thursday, March 18, 2010 3:19 PM EDT
Great-grandma mauled by Lynn family pit bull
By David Liscio / The Daily Item
LYNN - A Lynn great-grandmother seriously mauled by her extended family's pit bull Wednesday remains under medical watch while the city's animal control officers search for the owner in hopes of learning whether the dog has been vaccinated against rabies.
Margaret Murphy, 76, of Eastern Avenue, drove her car to 26 Mall St. shortly after 3 p.m. to visit her 10-year-old great grandson, Antonio, who lives with his grandmother, Carmen Santana Carrasquillo, and mother Isabelle Santana, in apartment No. 10. She knocked repeatedly but nobody answered. The door was ajar. When she opened it, the brown pit bull terrier lunged at her throat, snapping its powerful jaws until her skin was lacerated from head to toe.
“The pit bull just knocked me down in the hall and proceeded to bite me. I was shaking like a leaf. I knew I would die unless they got the dog off me,” Murphy said Thursday, bandaged and recuperating in her apartment. “I don't even know who pulled the dog off me. I was bleeding pretty bad. The skin was hanging off my leg.”
Police were called and an ambulance took Murphy to Union Hospital where she received multiple stitches on her face, right arm and leg.
Murphy said the dog is owned by Carrisquillo's son, Andre Carrisquillo, 23, who was in the apartment at the time but lives elsewhere in Lynn.
“Andre owns the dog, but his mother isn't saying because she wants to protect him,” said Murphy, noting that Antonio's father, Joseph Anderson, is serving time at Middleton Jail for hijacking cars, so the children often go unsupervised at the Mall Street apartment.
Michael Kairevich, the assistant animal control officer, snared the pit bull and brought it to the kennels at North Shore Animal Hospital on Neptune Boulevard.
“The people helped me get the dog to the truck, but once there it was fighting the whole time,” he said. “I had a heck of a time getting it to the kennel where it has been quarantined.”
Kairevich said the male pit bull was not neutered and had no documentation indicating its ownership or history of veterinary care. “We tried to find out who really owns the dog but everybody involved has disappeared,” he said. “The phone numbers we were given were no good so we've left messages at the addresses on Mall and Franklin streets. It's important that we find out if this dog had its rabies shot.”
If that vital information cannot be obtained by Friday, Kairevich said he would ask Kevin Farnsworth, the city's primary animal control officer, to petition the mayor's office for permission to euthanize the dog so that an autopsy can determine if it's rabid.
“I'd certainly like to know,” said Murphy. “I thought I was done for. Now I'm just waiting and worrying. I'd like to live a few more years.”
Police Lt. William Sharpe said officers responding to the scene were told that Andre Carrasquillo was visiting the apartment and brought along the dog when Murphy showed up at the door and entered without knocking.
“Great-grandma mauled by Lynn family pit bull”
Well I am sure she did something to deserve this vicsious attack by this warm & fuzzy little ball of fun.
“Andre owns the dog, but his mother isn’t saying because she wants to protect him,” said Murphy, noting that Antonio’s father, Joseph Anderson, is serving time at Middleton Jail for hijacking cars, so the children often go unsupervised at the Mall Street apartment.
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Now throw the rest of the trash in jail...
>> Margaret Murphy. Antonio [Anderson?]. Carmen Santana Carrasquillo. Isabelle Santana. Andre Carrisquillo. Joseph Anderson.
WTF? OK, so what tribe does this bunch belong to?
The victim always seems to be a child or an elderly woman.
They seem to be some of the lower forms of life,,,
What a friggin’ krew!...
This breed is gaining in popularity. I see them everywhere these days. Had a black-guy offer to sell me one from his cadillac as he pulled along side me two weeks ago. Cute little pup, but I said, “No thanks.”
And, shoot the beast.
Hence the reason why I am always carrying a military grade knife these days. You never know when you might need one.
“Kairevich said the male pit bull was not neutered and had no documentation indicating its ownership or history of veterinary care. “We tried to find out who really owns the dog but everybody involved has disappeared,” he said.”
Irresponsible ownership at its worst here. No one deserves to be attacked by a dog. I’m sure this poor woman was scared and in a great amount of pain.
If people were capable of accepting responsibility for their pets, these incidents would not be so prevalent, but as for right now, 13 thousand people are attacked by dogs every day in this country. Don’t be fooled by the prevalence of pit bull attacks being reported. They do happen, but other dogs are putting people in the hospital at the same rate without so much as a sentence written about them.
I have been looking into these stories and finding that similar attacks are being reported on one or two stations if they don’t involve pit bulls, but if they do involve this breed, the amount of media coverage is ridiculously large. But, the media is not obligated to report every dog attack. They are not a public service, but a business that strives for ratings/money.
It’s up to people to do their own research and decide for themselves, outside of media influence. As we have seen many times on this board, the media isn’t always the best source for factual information, but they are great for entertainment and sensationalism.
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