A 39 year old man from Dundee has been sent to prison for 12 months after being found guilty of owning banned Rottweiler dogs.
The dogs, owned by Derek Adam, escaped from a garden in Dundee in August 2010. The dogs attacked another before turning on a 10 year old girl, pulling her from her bike and mauling her. She was left with permanent scars.
Sentencing Adam, Sheriff Richard Davidson said the case highlighted that the current law in Scotland over keeping dangerous dogs was inadequate.
He said that the Scottish government needed to tighten legislation to prevent similar incidents, as Adam's dogs had already attacked a man five months before mauling the child.
The child suffered an 8cm wound to her leg and a broken jaw as well as other injuries. She cannot be named for legal reasons. The attack was halted after a neighbour, 57-year-old Irene Grady, intervened.
Rottweilers are a banned in the United Kingdom under the Dangerous Dogs Act. The attack came just weeks after Toni Clannachan was pinned to the ground by a Japanese Akita before being brutally attacked by the animal.
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