Tuesday July 10, 2007, 5:43 pm
Many calls to the Niagara County SPCA are instructing them to INVESTIGATE THE FAMILY. They are currently concentrating on the actions of the dog. How would the dog know to do this? Not unless someone TRAINED HIM.

In some of the news clips from different stations shows the dogs is scared in the cage and shaking. Not acting like an "aggressive" Pit Bull as they are stating he is.

Tuesday July 10, 2007, 5:47 pm
Please contact the SPCA to make sure a thorough Investigation is planned on the FAMILY of the dog and how they trained the dog:

Albert J. Chille, Executive Director
Pat H. McCue, Associate Director
2100 Lockport Road
Box 200 L.P.O.
Niagara Falls, NY 14304
Phone: (716)-731-4368
Fax: (716) 731-7084
e-mail: info@Niagaraspca.org

Tuesday July 10, 2007, 5:48 pm
I find this the most ridiculous story I have ever heard. I look forward to hearing the results of the investigation. I agree that the family should be investigated!

Tuesday July 10, 2007, 5:52 pm
Here is another clip and article:

http://www.wkbw.com/news/local/8419972.html

All they keep saying is they want to destroy the dog.

One can only imagine the market on the internet for this typeof behavior.

"Det. Capt. Larry Eggert says the mother was changing the baby's diaper and briefly left the room. "

What mother leaves her baby alone in a room while changing a diaper? Was the child on the floor with the dog when this happened? Who else was in the house? No changing table?

Too many questions that are unanswered IMHO.

Tuesday July 10, 2007, 6:04 pm
This is what I sent to info@Niagaraspca.org -- unfortunately short:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: A thorough investigation should be done on the family
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:02:06 -0400
To: info@Niagaraspca.org

Unfortunately I find it hard to believe that a dog would know what to do with a child in a sexual manner.

It appears like some excellent training from the owners of the animal. A dog may latch onto your leg and hump it, but sodomizing a baby? LUDICROUS.

This sounds like a sexual fantasy by the parents went awry.

Questions to ask the owners:
Did the Pit Bull turn the child over to abuse it?
Did the Pit Bull take out any sexual behavior on any other female dog?
Any pictures or videos found in the home that are questionable?
Any internet usage or questionable charges on credit cards to show the parents have sick sexual fantasies?

This is NOT the first time parents sexually abuse a child -- see this article:
http://www.registercitizen.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18567591&BRD=1652&PAG=461&dept_id=12530&rfi=6

BANTAM - More arrests are expected for the sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl by a grandfather, uncle, father and apparently a brother in what police said was a familial relationship of chronic abuse that included three generations and may have also included two more victims.

If the parents are not investigated, the justice system has failed the children of Western New York and the United States.

Thank you.
Sincerely,
Christine K
Buffalo NY

Tuesday July 10, 2007, 7:22 pm
There exists no documentation substantiating rape for a non-human on a human. There does exist, however, rape of non-humans by humans.

While animals such as dogs, horses, and hippos will mount one another to show dominance, there has never been evidence to show that the mounting animal penetrated the mounted animal.

I find the accusation that a dog committed a rape against a human absolutely ridiculous, and a sad attempt to divert attention away from the real aggressors, namely other humans. In all likelilhood, the child's rapist is a member of his family, or is a known acquiantance of the family.

But who will likely be made to suffer for this? An animal. An animal who cannot speak in human language in order to defend himself from the most wildly insane of accusations. I have heard much nonsense during the time when I served as a probation officer, but this is the wildest lie I've yet heard.

Tuesday July 10, 2007, 8:04 pm
This is also the contact information for the Niagara County Sheriff's Department and Lockport Police Dept.:

Niagara County Sheriff's Department
5526 Niagara Street Ext.,
P.O. Box 496
Lockport, New York 14095-0496

Phone: (716) 438-3393
Fax (716) 438-3302

http://www.ncsd.com/

Thomas A. Beilein, Sheriff
Samuel J. Muscarella, Jr., Undersheriff
Christopher Carlin, Chief Deputy (Uniform Operations)
John T. Taylor, Chief Deputy (Administrative Duties)

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City of Lockport Police Department

Chief of Police - Neil B. Merritt
One Locks Plaza
Lockport, New York 14094
Phone: 716.433.7700

http://www.elockport.com/city_police.html

Tuesday July 10, 2007, 9:07 pm

This is truly BIZARE!! I agree, an investigation must be conducted. That was my first reaction when I saw it on TV earlier. To think of the poor boy in the hospital and seeing the shaking dog with his very sad face.

Thanks Christine for taking the initiative and getting all the contact info. We should all send emails.

Tuesday July 10, 2007, 9:24 pm
I can't believe anyone would even begin to believe that story ! I sure don't ! Someone is trying to cover up their deviate behavior! Sheesh

Tuesday July 10, 2007, 9:25 pm
This is an incredibly strange story. They want to destroy the dog, but it did not know it was doing anything wrong. Is the dog fixed? That may be a simple solution to the problem.

I hope the little boy will be okay.

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 2:10 am
I agree there must have been something very sick going on in that home for this pitbull to act like this, Someone would have to have taught it or done something to it for it to know what to do....I am so disgusted.

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 2:22 am
Something smells very fishy here - I would suspect something very amiss in that household - and I'm not referring to the dog.
Poor little boy,poor dog.

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 2:29 am
Yes it is so easy for someone to put the blame on an animal who can't speak for itself, but there surely was a way of testing the semen, to see the DNA, and if it was human or animal. Remember this small child was raped and so there has to be some evidence.

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 4:21 am
Just reading the first part of the description of the "rape' ... "Eggert told us the boy's family members and neighbors had to beat the dog to get it off the child." ... when a dog enters a bitch they are tied. This can be anywhere from 2-3 minutes to over an hour ... been there, done that ... but yet they say they beat the dog to get it off. This is not a possibility. No amount of beating would enable the dog to remove its' penis from the child once it was in, until the gland reduced. There is nothing we can do to stop it. When I was growing up, people used to say that a bucket of cold water would work. Well, it may have worked for their husband, but it won't work for dogs. As for "the smell of the diaper" ... don't believe any dog would be sexually aroused by the smell of faeces. The second article mentions that they were both attached when the dog ran outside. Conflicting to start with. One of 2 scenarios. 1) The dog was trained to "mate" with humans or 2) was it really the dog/

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 4:33 am
noted .they better get the flea spray ready to kill some bugs. & its not the dog that needs spray .they better investigate the family .

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 4:55 am
Bad, Dirty Dog From Hell.

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 6:21 am
I wonder if the dog was anywhere near the child or if it is just a convenient scapegoat for a relative who lost control. Family dogs don't rape babies - not even pitbulls!

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 7:38 am
Here is an update:
http://www.wivb.com/global/story.asp?s=6773062

The End Sentence:
"The Niagara County District Attorney's Office is still investigating."

http://www.nysdaa.org/daroster.cfm

NIAGARA COUNTY

Hon. Matthew J. Murphy III
Niagara County District Attorney
Niagara County Courthouse
175 Hawley Street
Lockport, NY 14094-2740
716-439-7085
716-439-7102 (fax)
Debra.Fotia@niagaracounty.com
www.rin.buffalo.edu/c_niag/safe/pros/pros_agen/ncda.html

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 8:44 am
They should investigate - they can determine if the dog really did it or not. I highly believe the dog did not do this but someone else in the family.

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 8:44 am
They should investigate - they can determine if the dog really did it or not. I highly believe the dog did not do this but someone else in the family.

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 8:49 am
This was in the news last year and it was a hoax. Id check snopes on this one.

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 8:49 am
Who would leave a naked 2 year old with a pit bull alone for that length of time?

Something is not ringing true about this story . . .

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 8:52 am
I am completely blown away by this and at the same time, sadly not surprised that someone has come up with such a horrible scheme. Dogs act on instinct and what is taught to them! It is not there instinct to mate with something outside it's species. I am so disgusted and very afraid to find out what actually happened to this innocent little child. I can't imagine what horrific things this little boy has gone through. And to blame it on a dog that can do nothing to save it's own life....unbelievable.

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 9:04 am
This is not a hoax. This was ON OUR LOCAL NEWS. Please see ALL MY LOCAL LINKS For this.

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 9:31 am
I HAVE ALWAYS MAINTAINED A DOG IS ONLY AS SMART AS HIS OWNER.

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 1:01 pm
Nothing on the investigation of the family has been stated -- only this:

http://www.wivb.com/global/story.asp?s=6774546

Warning Signs May Have Been Missed
July 11, 2007 12:36 PM EDT

(July 11, 2007) - - A two year old Lockport boy is hospitalized after he was allegedly sodomized by the family pit bull in his home on Sunday.

The president of the Niagara Frontier Veterinary Society says the dog's owners may have missed some warning signs.

She says at two years old, the dog is reaching sexual maturity and should be watched closely and never left alone with a child.

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 1:37 pm
This is absolutely impossible - the family should definitely be investigated. There is no way the dog could have done what they're claiming.

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 1:48 pm
NO way NO how........would not happen, could not happen, not probable, that this or any dog could or would do this...NO NO NO
The parents or someone in the home in human form..YES
of course they keep saying they want the dog killed to keep attention off of them...how sick and if this is true I hope no one is hurting the dog where he is GOD forbid should humans be a little smarter and figure out a HUGE lie when they hear it......this dog did nothing of the sort and it is the humans who need to be locked up!

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 1:54 pm
I am sorry I think this is absolutely disgusting.
Love & Light

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 2:56 pm
There's a limit to what I will acknowledge and this is way beyond that. I don't want to hear/read the gory details. Pathetic

Wednesday July 11, 2007, 6:14 pm
Update on this plus interview with a so=called witness:

http://www.wkbw.com/news/local/8441602.html

A Lockport toddler continues to recover from injuries suffered in an unusual sexual attack by the family's dog. The man who rescued the boy tells an incredible story of what he saw. The details of what he says happened are troubling.

What happened in this apartment house on Washburn Street in Lockport on Sunday is something Anastasio Castillo will never forget. "It's hard to believe.. Hard.. You had to be there to see. because it was nasty and ugly." He was walking home from the store when he heard a woman inside screaming for help. He says he ran inside and saw this pit bull sodomizing a two year old boy. "The dog had the baby by the front leg. And the baby's stomach....then I had to beat up on the dog to take him away from the baby."

He says the dog ran outside...and as Castillo picked up the boy, he was bleeding from the rectum and then vomited. Castillo is having trouble sleeping now. He can't understand how it could've happened. It is extremely rare for something like this to happen. Most cases involve owners forcing the behavior on animals.

Police say witnesses are cooperating with the investigation. "There's still interviews taking place and there's consultations with some experts," said Police Chief Neil Merritt. One of the experts that police have turned to is an animal behaviorist. Because investigators have never dealt with a case like this before they need some help in trying to figure ou