Friday, March 16, 2012
NEW CASTLE, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania woman must forfeit three pit bulls and pay $8,100 to an animal shelter where they have been quarantined since the attack on her 91-year-old neighbor last year.
The New Castle News reports a Lawrence County judge also ordered 48-year-old Janet Karnes, of New Castle, to spend a year on probation after she pleaded guilty to being responsible for a dog attack causing serious injury.
The woman told authorities she had her son let the dogs out a rear door when she heard neighbors screaming moments later that the elderly woman was being attacked on April 10.
The woman was treated at a local hospital before she was transferred to a Pittsburgh hospital for more treatment.
Authorities say only one of the dogs actually bit the victim.