CA - Nicholas Faibish, 12, mauled to death by dogs, San Francisco, 3 June 2005

[concernedperson]

July 26 - Lawyers had to escort a sobbing mother from a San Francisco courtroom today during closing arguments in the trial accusing her of felony child endangerment in the 2005 dog-mauling death of her son.

Maureen Faibish fidgeted as a prosecutor told a jury she knew the family's two pit bulls posed a threat to her son Nicholas, but still left him home alone with the dogs.

Jurors began deliberating this afternoon immediately following the end of the closing arguments. more at link:http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=4404240

It is over and over again. Training by owners, the dogs are sweet, etc. Then you get one who acknowledges a threat but still left the learning impaired child.How about LOT of child abuse?

 

[chicoliving]

Prosecutors say they will not retry a child-endangerment case against a former San Francisco mother whose young son was mauled to death by the family's pit bulls after she left him home alone to attend a school picnic with her daughter.

Maureen Faibish, 40, who now lives in Oregon, had faced charges that could have sent her to state prison for as long as 10 years. A San Francisco Superior Court jury deadlocked on a felony endangerment charge July 31. After two days of deliberations, 10 jurors voted for acquittal, and two voted to convict, a court clerk said.

Faibish's lawyer said the split showed jurors were not swayed by arguments that her client recklessly put the child in harm's way.

"None of them believed that when Ms. Faibish walked out the door she believed her son (Nicholas) would be seriously injured or killed," said Lidia Stiglich. "There's not much more that can be done to her. Her son is dead, and she's the one who left him on that day."

http://www.ktvu.com/news/9839426/detail.html

 

[southcitymom]

I'm happy about the result in this case. I feel a lot of empathy for this mother and did not think she deserved to go to jail. Her punishment is worse than that anyway.