Parents of boy left housebound after Staffie tore his arm to the bone are furious as owner is allowed to keep pets
FURIOUS parents of an 11-year-old boy who's arm was ripped from the bone after a savage dog attack have blasted a court’s decision not to ban the animal’s owner from keeping pets.as he knocked on his friends door in Ormskirk, Lancashire.Credit: Mercury PressCredit: Mercury Press
But the animal’s owner Sarah Haselton, 36, escaped a ban on keeping animals when she appeared at Preston Magistrates Court yesterday.She said: “Cooper not only has awful scars to live with for the rest of his life, but is having a terrible time with panic attacks, to the point where he is housebound.
Cooper not only has awful scars to live with for the rest of his life, but is having a terrible time with panic attacks, to the point where he is houseboundMs Haselton, an NHS worker, had pleaded guilty to being the owner of a dangerously out of control animal, causing injury, at an earlier hearing last month.
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