A man and woman were charged with manslaughter in western New York on Thursday after they left their 3-month-old baby alone in an attic with two dogs and the child was fatally mauled , authorities said.
Sulamain Hawkins and Anastasia Weaver, both 19, were at a home in Rochester on Aug. 3 when they left their baby asleep in the attic with the dogs and went downstairs to smoke marijuana, Rochester police said in a news release.
When they returned to the attic they found that the baby, Sulamain Hawkins Jr., had been attacked by one or both dogs , police said. The child was taken to a hospital, where he died.
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After an investigation by police, child protective services and the Monroe County district attorney’s office, Hawkins and Weaver were arrested Wednesday. They were arraigned Thursday on manslaughter charges and are due back in court Aug. 27.
Messages seeking comment were sent to attorneys for Hawkins and Weaver.
The dogs were euthanized, police said.
In another horrific dog mauling incident this month a woman has been mauled to death by a pack of 25 Great Danes while walking in a popular trail in California .
Davina Corbin, 56, was discovered covered in numerous bite marks and injuries near the Blackhawk Trail in Feather Falls by officials at around 2am last week.
It was revealed that the cause of Mrs Corbin's death was the result of a domestic dog attack. Lab analysis results showed that the victim's clothes were covered in DNA consistent with domestic dogs .
Neighbours later also said that she lived in the area, did not have a car and had often been spotted walking on the trail near Craig Access. Based on these revelations, Butte County deputies began searching a residence near to where Corbin was found and soon discovered around 25 Great Dane dogs that were loose in the area.
According to an official press release, authorities spent the entire day capturing the dogs and were able to turn 23 of them over to Animal Control. Detectives are still trying to capture the remaining two. A neighbor, Max Hecker, said he's narrowly avoided a deadly run-in with the pack of feral pooches.
They have tried to attack him on more than one occasion. "The Great Danes, they come across the road here at me. I jumped in the car and left. This road would be solid tracks of the dogs, and they'd be out here in the road, and you would have to wade through 'em'," he said. There wasn't an explanation as to why there was a pack of 25 wild Great Danes out and about in a wooded area of California.
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