(vid) Virginia Woman Killed In Horrible Mauling Attack By Her Own Pit Bull Dogs

UPDATE:

The dogs recently allegedly “were a little bit neglected,” said Sheriff’s Sgt. Mike Blackwood. “She left the dogs with her father, her father was not taking care of the dogs, it wasn’t his responsibility, and she would come home maybe five times to the father’s house a week on average and take the dogs out, and so they became more isolated where the only contact they had was with each other, and it was less and less human contact.”

“I’m not saying that the family was neglectful,” Blackwood said. “They were kept outside, and they previously had been inside dogs” who “became a little distant from their owner towards the end.” (source)

…the medical examiner said Stephens was on her “menstrual period,”…. (Deputies watched dogs ‘eating rib cage’ of Virginia woman, 22, during mauling, sheriff says)

Agnew refuted rumors that the pit bulls had been used for fighting and said that while rare, such attacks on owners weren’t unheard of.

‘I don’t want to disparage any particular breed but if you do the research you will find that many of them are perpetuated by pit bulls.’ …

Of particular note, Sergeant Mike Blackwood revealed the dogs, which had lived inside with Stephens, had been a ‘little bit neglected towards the end of this’ after the 22-year-old left the dogs with her father who wasn’t taking care of them.

Stephens would come home five times a week to see the dogs, which had been moved outside to a kennel and became increasingly isolated. It wasn’t immediately understood to what degree the dogs had been left unattended to and possibly undernourished and how that may in the end led to Bethany’s ‘primal’ dogs turning on her. (source)

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Virginia Woman Killed In Grisly Mauling Attack By Her Pit Bull Dogs