SAN FRANCISCO - The mother of a 12-year-old boy killed in his own home by one of the family’s two pit bulls says she had been so concerned about one of the dogs that she shut her son in the basement to protect him.
Maureen Faibish said she ordered Nicholas to stay in the basement while she did errands on June 3, the day he was attacked by one or both of the dogs. She said she was worried about the male dog, Rex, who was acting possessive because the female, Ella, was in heat.
“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.”
Nicholas apparently found a way to open the basement door.
Despite her concerns about Rex that day, Faibish told the newspaper: “My kids got along great with (the dogs). We were never seeing any kind of violent tendencies.”
Faibish found her son’s body in a bedroom. He was covered in blood from several wounds, including a major head injury. No charges have been filed.
“It’s Nicky’s time to go,” she said in the interview. “When you’re born you’re destined to go and this was his time.”
Ella was shot to death by a police officer the day of the attack. Rex was taken to a shelter, but Faibish said she wanted him put down.
You must be kidding me. The sanctity of human life far outweighs that of any dog, beloved pet or not, espcially one’s OWN SON! I would gladly lay down my own life for my children - I can’t believe her comments. I mean no offense by this, but this doesn’t surprise me in California - nothing does.
No one loves dogs more then me bu the second you have doubts about your animal it’s outta there. When is her court date for her part in her son’s death?
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