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

[sharon25]

sorry if this has been posted already-

"boy bit before mauling"
Maureen Faibish has told investigators that the family's male dog, Rex, bit the boy hours before he was killed in the family's Sunset District home June 3.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/15/BABADIGEST3.DTL

she has to be charged!!!!!!!!
I don't think this was accidental.
I really don't.

You don't just let a dog bite
your child and then (1) Not do
something with the dog- like
call animal control. and (2)
you don't leave you child with
the dog that JUST bit him a few
hours before!!!!

This doesn't make any sense to me.
this wasn't an accident imo.
It almost sounds like she
knew her son wouldn't listen to her.
so instead of locking the dogs up, or
getting rid of them since one had just BIT
her son, she decided to put Him in the basement
knowing that he wouldn't stay
down there.

Dear God, that poor poor child
my heart just breaks for him

 

[VespaElf]

I hate this woman. I can't think of anything bad enough to say about her.

I can but it'd violate the TOS!! :silenced: :innocent:

 

[KrazyKollector]

I can only hope that there is a special place in Hades for people like her.:behindbar
:behindbar :behindbar :behindbar :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick:
Does she even realize just how badly her son probably suffered before he died?
I cry just thinking about it. That poor little boy died without anyones arms holding him and with the knowledge that he was lower on the family pack chain than the dogs. That is just sickening. :sick:

 

[mysteriew]

The mother of a boy who was mauled to death by one or both of the family's pit bulls has been arrested and charged with child endangerment, The City's district attorney announced Thursday.

District Attorney Kamala Harris said the evidence in the case "compelled" her office to file the felony charges against Maureen Faibish, who admitted that she had left her son, Nicholas, home alone with the family's two pit bulls, to run errands, even though one had bitten the 12-year-old boy earlier in the day.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/articles/2005/06/24//news//20050634_ne01_mauled.txt

 

[blueclouds]

HAPPY TO HEAR THERE ARE LE IN SAN FRANCISCO THAT FEEL THE SAME WAY. THROUGH HER BUTT IN JAIL AND TAKE HER OTHER CHILDREN AWAY! What a freaking nut! Locks her BOY ------------- NOT THE DOGS ----------------- IN THE BASEMENT. OBVIOUS WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT IN HER LIFE. WITCH.

 

[mysteriew]

The mother of a young boy fatally mauled by the family's pit bulls was released from jail Friday after pleading not guilty to charges of felony endangerment.

Before she was arrested, Faibish told the San Francisco Chronicle: "I know I didn't do anything wrong." She left the courthouse with her lawyer Friday without speaking to reporters.

http://www.bakersfield.com/state_wire/story/5582717p-5553998c.html

 

[BldWhtRose]

IF she has 2 kids where in the world was the other child at , at this time ?
I am worried that this one might walk... AND SO..... I hope the DA/Prosecuter gets smart and decides to charge this woman with MANY crimes
In most states, last time I heard, 12 was too young to be left alone ? Charge her with whatever charge that has associated with it.
In a lot of states now a days it is illegal to even own this type of dog ??
Knowing the dogs were vicious and had attacked him, yes the original charge should still of course be applied. Wouldn't there be some law against even LOCKING your kids in anyways ? Some cities require that you MUST notify them of any animal attack ? another charge ? There has to be MANY possible charges ? I just do not know the names of the legal charges.

 

[mysteriew]

I have been kind of watching this story, and the city evidently did not have laws about pit bulls. However they are working on passing them now. I never heard where the second child was, nor very much at all about him. The mother has been charged with child endangerment, which I believe does carry a prison term.
BTW welcome to WS!

 

[LinasK]

California, unfortunately, does not have breed specific laws. They are working now in S.F. to change that. In the recent weeks, there have been 5 pit bull attacks in the Bay Area- Nicolas's death was just one of them!:furious:

 

[LinasK]

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN)

Photographs of a blood-splattered hallway where Maureen Faibish's 12-year-old son was savagely mauled to death by two pit bulls more than a year ago were shown in a San Francisco Superior courtroom today.

Opening statements in the trial of Faibish, 40, who is accused of felony child endangerment with a special enhancement because her son Nicholas died, were presented in the court of Judge Anne Bouliane.

Nicholas Faibish was fatally mauled June 3, 2005 by the family's two pit bulls, Rex and Ella.

Faibish found her son when she returned to her 711 Lincoln Way home around 3 p.m. after leaving her son alone at home with the two dogs. According to prosecutor Linda Moore, Faibish left her son at home while she attended a school picnic for her daughter. Nicholas, who was diagnosed with receptive and expressive speech impairments, refused to attend school that day.

"His mother left him home alone with those dogs and it cost him his life," Moore said.

Before leaving for the picnic Faibish lectured Nicholas about staying away from the dogs because Ella was in heat, prompting Rex to behave in a more aggressive manner, according to both the prosecution and the defense.

Faibish told her son to stay in the basement of the apartment building where the family lived until she returned home. Inside the basement was a videogame system, a television and some soda, chips and a bagel.

There was also "a toilet full of dark brown liquid that didn't flush," according to Moore. more at link:http://cbs5.com/localwire/localfsnews/bcn/2006/07/17/n/HeadlineNews/FAIBISH-TRIAL/resources_bcn_html

 

[LinasK]

Police who saw the basement on Lincoln Way said the toilet was fouled and broken and the room was filled with bags of garbage. There was a phone that didn't work and a refrigerator containing moldy food, they said.

The only way the boy could have gotten to a functioning toilet would have been to go up the back stairs and through a room where the dogs were kept, they said.

Faibish returned home to find Nicholas dead in an upstairs bedroom. Assistant District Attorney Linda Moore called it a scene of "unbelievable horror." The boy's face had been mauled, and he had a hole in the back of his scalp. Police said Faibish had tried to revive her son with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and was covered with blood when they arrived.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/18/FAIBISH.TMP

 

[LinasK]

Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

07-19) 14:13 PDT San Francisco -- Prosecutors rested their case today against the San Francisco woman accused in the dog-mauling death of her 12-year-old son, after summoning witnesses to bolster their argument that she should have known the boy was unlikely to follow directions and stay away from the family pit bulls that killed him.


Maureen Faibish, 40, is accused of felony child endangerment for leaving son Nicholas home with the two pit bulls June 3, 2005, while she went on a school picnic with her young daughter. She told authorities she had told the boy to stay in the basement and away from the dogs, one of which had bitten him that morning. She returned to the Inner Sunset District house nearly three hours later to find the boy mauled to death.

The prosecution called the boy's special education teacher at Roosevelt Middle School and a school speech pathologist, both of whom said they had told Faibish that her son had problems listening and following directions.

Natalie Hom, a speech and language therapist who worked with Nicholas from the first to the fifth grades, testified in San Francisco Superior Court that the boy was two to three grade levels behind. His biggest weakness, she said, was his difficulty following directions.

Assistant District Attorney Linda Moore asked what would happen when Nicholas was given a task and left alone. "He would attempt to complete the task, but he could be spacey and wander off," Hom said. "He would need reminders to bring his attention back to task.''

She said she had met with his mother and had told her about the learning challenges the boy would face throughout his life. "Mrs. Faibish said he did have difficulty following instructions at home,'' she said. "He needed prompts and reminders.'' Karen Anzaldo, who took over the supervision of Nicholas' special education when he got to the sixth grade, said she had told Faibish the boy had difficulty remembering such basic instructions as raising his hand to be called on in class.



Working independently, without rewards or prompting, was not possible for Nicholas, she said. "If you gave him three-step instructions and stepped away, he would not follow,'' Anzaldo said.

Faibish followed his progress closely and readily agreed to her recommendations, Anzaldo said. However, she said, when Faibish's husband left for a new job in Oregon in May, Nicholas all but stopped attending school and his mother skipped a meeting about his education plan, she said. Maureen Faibish said that with her husband gone, she was having trouble getting the boy to go to school, Anzaldo said. "She was having a very difficult time being responsible for everything,'':furious: Anzaldo said. more at link:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/19/MNGQBK1U5V8.DTL

 

[michelle]

This is so sad. She needs to go to jail a LONG time.

 

[LinasK]

I agree. What idiot mother who has a son with a known learning disability for following directions- leaves him home alone with pit bulls in heat who had already bitten him earlier in the day, just so she could attend her daughter's school picnic???:doh: :furious: If he wouldn't go, how about skipping the damn picnic.:razz: Also, if they were moving in 3 days- where did she find the time to go to a picnic?She's a lousy mother-locks him in a basement with no working toilet or phone and moldy food...

 

[michelle]

I agree. What idiot mother who has a son with a known learning disability for following directions home alone with pit bulls in heat who had already bitten him earlier in the day, just so she could attend her daughter's school picnic???:doh: :furious: If he wouldn't go, how about skipping the damn picnic.:razz: Also, if they were moving in 3 days- where did she find the time to go to a picnic?She's a lousy mother-locks him in a basement with no working toilet or phone and moldy food...

I know I get fired up about stuff like this.:furious: This crap needs to stop these parents with NO regard for their childrens lives what so ever. I say make an example of her to others who think of doing this crap and throw her in jail and throw away the key!!!!:behindbar

 

[LinasK]

There was an earlier article today that I coudn't locate again that the father testified that years ago he sicked his pit bull on another dog!!!

 

[michelle]

There was an earlier article today that I coudn't locate again that the father testified that years ago he sicked his pit bull on another dog!!!

Oh well that explains alot. What idiots.

 

[LinasK]

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

 

[Garnan]

She left him there for about 3 hours. I wonder is she told anyone, "I've got to get home, my son is home alone with the dogs" or anything like that.


I don't know why anyone would have a pitbull when they have children. Especially if they aren't fixed. Why risk it?

 

[chicoliving]

mistrial has been declared in the trial of a San Francisco mother accused of felony child neglect for leaving her 12-year-old son at home where he was mauled to death by the family dogs.

http://cbs13.com/local/local_story_212165800.html