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Karma: 0 |  | Police Dog Attacks Girlscout in Georgia
« Thread Started on Jan 20, 2006, 9:12pm » | |
LAWRENCEVILLE -- A police dog has been impounded after authorities say the animal jumped a 6-foot fence and attacked a 9-year-old girl attending a Girl Scout meeting.
Gwinnett County police say Courtney Imoukhuede of Lawrenceville was attacked at her neighbor's house January 9 while she was attending the Scout meeting.
Courtney received five bite marks on her lower back and several more on her arm from the 2-year-old dog. The female Belgian Malinois is a bomb-sniffing dog for the DeKalb County Police Department.
DeKalb County Police Officer John Hansen is the dog's handler and kept the animal at his house in Lawrenceville, in the Knollwood Lakes subdivision. Police cited the officer with two misdemeanors: failure to restrain his animal and public nuisance/attacks without provocation.
The dog has been impounded in DeKalb County.
Gwinnett County Police Department spokesman Darren Moloney says the girl was in the backyard of the neighbor's home when she was attacked.
Bomb dogs are kept by the officers assigned to them, not at police stations. DeKalb police are trying to determine why the dog jumped the fence and attacked the girl.
A spokesman for the DeKalb County Police Department -- Corey Hughes -- says bomb dogs are NOT trained to be aggressive or to bite .
[url][http://www.wsbtv.com/news/6190621/detail.html/url]
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