UK: Parents spared jail after 'dangerously out of control' husky killed three-month-old baby
A couple whose dog mauled their baby daughter to death in a “tragic” case have been spared jail. Blizzard, a Siberian husky used for racing, killed three-month-old Kyra King in woodland on March 6 last year.
The judge said she did not believe the incident was "reasonably foreseeable" instead describing it as "a momentary lapse of an otherwise good system". She handed both defendants a suspended sentence. The pair, of Castle Dyke Bank, New York, Lincolnshire, covered their faces as they arrived at court individually, having separated since the incident. Judge Knight did not ban the pair from owning dogs but both were handed suspended sentences.
While the rear and sliding side doors of the van were closed, Blizzard leapt over the partition separating the cages from the van’s front seats, ran out of the open passenger door and attacked Kyra as she slept in her pram. Despite the efforts of King and Alcock, Kyra was pronounced dead at the scene and the pair were arrested.
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