Indiana Accident News

Indianapolis Woman Loses Leg In Pit Bull Attack

The owner of two vicious pit bulls was not successful in seeking an appeal for his two-year prison sentence. According to the Indiana Court of Appeals, aggressive dog owner and pit bull breeder Lee Carroll deserves the sentence he received for two counts for Failure to Restrain a Dog Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury and two counts of Harboring a Non-Immunized Dog.

Carroll’s two dogs attacked 68-year-old great-grandmother Brenda Hill in Indianapolis in 2009, leaving the woman badly mauled and without a leg. Hill says that she was taking out her garbage one day when the dogs attacked her. She passed out from the dog bites and awoke in an ambulance. She had to undergo several painful surgeries and have her leg amputated because of the pit bull attack. She now is mobile only with the help of a wheelchair.

According to witness reports, Carroll got the dogs off of Hill, said he was sorry, but then left her without medical attention. The two dogs were put to sleep a month after the attack. The sentence for Carroll is unusually strict in light of other recent dog bite cases, but one that has been lauded by animal control officials and safety advocates. The sentence was also applauded by City-County Councilman Mike Speedy, who wants to pass a law requiring all pit bulls in Indianapolis to be sterilized.

Pit bull advocates stressed that the dogs’ owners should be blamed for the aggressiveness of the animals and for the attack itself – and that the dogs have no blame in the case.

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