Conn. aunt charged in tot's pit bull mauling death
December 22, 2011
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WEST HAVEN, Conn.—A Connecticut woman has been charged with criminally negligent homicide in the mauling death of her toddler niece by three pit bulls.
Police say 30-year-old Erica Hobdy was also charged Thursday with reckless endangerment and risk of injury to a minor in the death of 20-month-old Neveah Bryant.
The girl was mauled by three pit bulls on Sept. 30 while she was in Hobdy's apartment. She later died at a hospital.
Hobdy has said the child and dogs were in separate rooms with the door closed when she left to buy a drink. She says she came home to find Neveah had been attacked.
The child's death was ruled an accident by the state medical examiner.
The animals were killed by police.
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