Mother shut boy in basement to protect him from pit bull

[democracyindanger]

Hours before being mauled to death by the family pit bull, 12-year- old Nicholas Faibish had been told to stay in the basement separated from the dogs, said his distraught mother, Maureen Faibish, who called The Chronicle on Saturday, trying to make sense of what she called a "freak accident.''

"I put him down there, with a shovel on the door,'' said Faibish, who had left the boy alone with the dogs on June 3 to run some errands. "He had a bunch of food. And I told him, 'Stay down there until I come back.' Typical Nicky, he wouldn't listen to me.''
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Maureen Faibish said she put Nicholas rather than the dogs in the basement because the room, which also served as a playroom for the children, was filled with plastic bags in preparation of their move. She figured the dogs would have destroyed the bags filled with clothes.

Before she left the house, Faibish sent her 9-year-old son to the store to buy Nicholas a soda, bagel and chips. He also had video games to keep him busy.

"Nicky was happy down there," she said.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/12/MNGJND7G5L1.DTL

[pie]

1. That story is just sad all around

[mike_c]

2. omfg-- further proof that there ought to be a test to pass...

...before reproducing. Words fail me.

[candy]

4. You said it all---This woman in NUTS!

"Typical Nicky---he wouldn't listen to me" says dear Mom.

[candy]

6. She actually said "It was Nicky's time to go"-------- I wonder if the

boy had some learning disabilities----at 12 years old why would he have to be put in any room while Mom did errands?

[XanaDUer]

3. Why were they keeping dogs dangerous to their kids?

...

[Gays_R_Family]

5. if you have to lock your child in the basement ...

to protect it from your pet, there is clearly a problem.

[XanaDUer]

7. Upon re-reading the article:

"It's Nicky's time to go," she said. "When you're born you're destined to go and this was his time."

Jesus. Poor young man.

One dog was trained to "lick off" her make-up?

:wtf:?

[Fovea]

8. Maybe someone should lock this bitch

in a car trunk so that she won't get burned when we molotov cocktail her car...

[BikeWriter]

9. She doesn't know jack shit about mastering a dog...

or protecting a kid. :(

[Selatius]

10. I think she should be tried for manslaughter at least

Any lawyer could indict her just on this statement:

"Typical Nicky, he wouldn't listen to me."

[bloom]

11. She said it - SHE LOVES THE DOGS TO DEATH

"Faibish felt compelled to call The Chronicle, she said, because she was upset by comments in a Saturday column that disparaged family members who own pit bulls.

In the column an Oakland surgeon who often treats bites by pit bulls said, "when you have an animal like that in your house you are recklessly endangering your family.''

"...On one hand, she continued to defend pit bulls and her dogs."

"Even after the whole thing,'' she said, "I'm not mad at my dogs. I just love them to death.''

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"But she insists, "I have no regrets about that day," Faibish said."

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If the gov't has to protect kids from parents who want to own dogs that kill people - they should do it.