A man in New York who had committed a dog attack, including two young people, had been sentenced to seven months in prison on Friday (20 days) with suspended sentences and had to pay a fine of nearly $15,000 to local governments.
According to APS, on Friday in the Goulburn District Court, Scott Ian Hammond, 47 years old from Pudney, pleaded guilty to three counts of assault and actual bodily harm. A young boy and three adult men were injured last year by two of their bulldogs, Cocka and Girlie, in Tahmoor, South-West Sydney. Judge Doug Dick sentenced Hammond to seven months ' suspended imprisonment and ordered him to pay a fine of $14,336 from the County Government of Wollondilly Shire and to execute the dogs. Hammond was also banned from raising dogs.
On 20 October last year, two men, then 33 and 38 years old, were violently attacked by two bulldogs after Hammond had set up his dog. The police accused Hammond of having instigated one of the dogs against one of the men, who jumped on the hood of a car to escape. Both men sustained minor injuries.
In another incident, also after Hammond had set up a dog, a 16-year-old boy and his friend were attacked by a dog while walking on a street in Tamor. The young man was bitten with a deep mouth and stabbed in the knee.
A 51-year-old shopkeeper who asked Hammond to leave his shop was also attacked by the dogs, who seriously injured him.