A BOY who was allegedly handcuffed by his mother and two others has been viciously attacked by a pit bull in a freak accident.
His mother Angelina Williams claimed she did not know it was illegal to handcuff a child.
Williams appeared before a judge on Wednesday, where the harrowing details of the incident were revealed by prosecutor Chris Tunnell, according to local Fox affiliate WJW.
Williams appeared in an Ashland County courtroom in Ohio, facing a charge of endangering a child.
According to the prosecutor, Williams, along with two other co-defendants, handcuffed a young boy on Saturday because he failed to clean up after a dog in the home.
The situation escalated quickly when, shortly after being handcuffed, the child was viciously attacked by a pit bull.
“This defendant and the co-defendants handcuffed him, both hands, and then applied a second set of cuffs to his feet,” Tunnell explained during the hearing.
He added that the trio was in the process of using a rope to tie the boy to a chair when he fell to the ground, making him vulnerable to the dog’s attack.
Williams, who appeared visibly shaken in court, insisted that she did not realize her actions were illegal.
“The dog is not even my dog,” she tried to explain.
“The cuffs are not even my cuffs,” she told the judge.
“I didn’t even know the cuffs were illegal or anything was wrong with it,” she said.
“My uncle told me it was OK.”
The 6-year-old boy suffered serious injuries during the attack, including bites on his neck and ears.
The boy had to be airlifted to a hospital where he received treatment, raising concerns about the safety and welfare of the child by hospital staff.
During the hearing, Williams tried to downplay her involvement in the abuse.
“I never meant any harm, I really didn’t,” she said.
However, the prosecutor pointed out that Williams did not have legal custody of her son or daughter, and the children were only in her care for a visit at the time of the incident – making the situation worse for her.
Williams’ bond was set at $300,000.
Her co-defendants Taylor Desiree Marvin-Brown and Robert Michalski own the pit bull and face child endangerment charges.
Marvin-Brown’s bond was set at $250,000, while Michalski’s was set at $150,000.
All three remain in jail as they await their next court dates.
Meanwhile, a woman in California was mauled to death by a pack of 25 Great Danes while on a hike earlier this month.
Davina Corbina, 56, was found dead on her neighbor’s porch with multiple bites over her body.
A medical examiner determined that she had died as a result of a domestic dog attack.
According to the Butte County Sheriff’s Office, Corbina had “numerous bite marks and injuries” on her body and her clothing had the DNA of domestic dogs on it.
