Nothing Will Change Until There Are Consequences...

A woman whose ‘monster’ XL bully mauled three young girls after it reacted in a ‘very aggressive’ way to a knock at the front door was allowed to walk free from court yesterday.

Since she probably weighed less than the killer mutt, she resorted to a rather unusual choice of intervention when it pounced. 

Victoria Hewitt wrestled with seven-and-a-half stone pet Karma as it savaged and ‘dragged’ the ‘screaming’ children at her home and desperately tried to coax it away from them with ham she grabbed from the fridge.

A brave neighbour eventually wrestled the animal to the ground and Hewitt desperately yelled ‘Shoot the dog’ when police arrived. Officers sedated Karma, who was later destroyed.

What a waste of sedatives! 

Hewitt, 42, is understood to have registered the pet under a new law brought in weeks earlier that required them to be registered - but also stated they must be kept securely. The semi-permanent makeup artist appeared in court yesterday where she was handed an eight-month jail term, suspended for 18 months...

*sighs* 

Judge Anthony Bate heard the dog had belonged to an ex-partner of Hewitt who left it with her.

 🎵I might have known, there is always some man...🎵

She took steps to manage the risk it posed, including installing a pen and stairgates. Karma was also muzzled when out on walks and kept in a different room when visitors called by. But Judge Bate said while the precautions were ‘well intended’, they were limited and ‘inadequate’, allowing the powerful pet to cause the terrible injuries.

They were always going to be limited and inadequate because she had no chance of physically intervening when the mutt decided to do what it was bred for... 

He also ordered her to carry out a 20-day Rehabilitation Activity Requirement, in which an offender takes part in activities designed to address the behaviour that contributed to the crime and attend supervision appointments with a probation officer.

Good luck finding an activity designed to address the behavior that makes these women fall for unsuitable men who skip town and leave them holding a four-legged ticking time bomb!