Posted 6/25/2005 04:29:00 PM by Douglas

Looks like this worthless sack of crap is going to get charged with endangerment.

The mother of a 12-year-old boy fatally mauled by the family's pit bulls was charged Thursday with child endangerment.

Nicholas Faibish was killed June 3 by one or both of the family dogs when his mother went out to run errands.

Maureen Faibish, 39, found her son in a bedroom, covered in blood from several wounds, including a major head injury.

"His parent made the decision to leave (Nicholas) alone in a situation that endangered his life and ultimately led to his death," prosecutor Kamala Harris said in a statement.

Maureen Faibish told the San Francisco Chronicle she had been so concerned about one of the dogs that she shut her son in the basement to protect him. She said the male dog was acting possessively because the female was in heat.

Two things bother me about this story. What the hell is endangerment? Seems to me that the connotation of "endangerment" implies you put someone at risk without necessarily causing harm to that person. But if your actions lead to someone's death, endangerment doesn't seem to imply. You might be endangered if I point a gun in your face, but you're not endangered after I pull the trigger. You're freakin' dead.

Also, by locking her son in the basement to keep him away from these dogs shows that she was fully aware of the risk she was placing them in. She can't claim that she didn't know he was in danger, because she took steps to keep the dogs away from him. The fact that she locked her son in the basement so she could go shopping is another matter.

I hope she gets the Scott Peterson jury and not the OJ/Jack-o jury.

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