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Saturday, January 19, 2008


Dog Mauling Case Ends With Guilty Verdict

Dog Mauling Case Ends With Guilty Verdict
Centralia, WA - The Onalaska man, who owns the property where a toddler was mauled by a pack of dogs last summer, may face a year in jail when sentenced next month. Curt Lester Jr. was found guilty of one count of reckless endangerment and five counts of having animals at large. The various counts are gross misdemeanors.

Lester, who retired as a civilian worker from the Washington National Guard, disputed that six of the dogs were his. This was his second error in judgment; his first was blaming the victim's parents. Shortly after the attack he said the boy's parents should share the blame in the awful attack.
"100 percent their blame," Lester said. "Letting that little boy get out in the road."
The original news story describes the child's 40 wounds inflicted by the pack of dogs, including a punctured lung and multiple scrapes from being dragged down the road. Witnesses say that Lester had been warned by other parents prior to the attack and had failed to keep his dogs inside of a fence.

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Anonymous schultz  |  1/20/2008 1:05 PM  |  Flag  
i remember when this story originally broke.
while, i too have a hard time with a 14 month old playing in the road, was the kid actually IN the road? and even if he was, that does not at all excuse the idiot who moved away and left his dogs there to fend for themselves.
would lester be so quick to blame the parents if it was a 10 yr old?
remember also, this is a rural area. it is not like the kid was playing on main street!

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