Misha Xie fined for dog attack that put 82yo woman in hospital for six weeks
A COURT has heard how the daughter of an elderly woman mauled in a vicious dog attack feared her mother would be killed.
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THE daughter of an 82-year-old woman mauled in a vicious dog attack has told a court she feared her mother would die.
When she went to see her mum in hospital following the savage assault, she said she thought they “were going to lose her”.
The octogenarian spent six weeks in hospital and now is scared to go out walking.
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But the owner of the dog involved reckons “he is the victim”, saying it wasn’t his fault his dog attacked.
At Dandenong Magistrates’ Court this morning Keysborough man Misha Xie pleaded guilty to one charge of being in control of a dog that caused serious injury.
The court heard the woman was walking along a Keysborough street at around 3.15pm on September 26 this year.
At the same time Xie was walking two dogs, a German shepherd and a bull terrier, on leads.
As they crossed paths the shepherd began barking, lunged at the woman, attacking and biting her.
It ripped a 100m by 80mm hole in her arm, knocked her to the ground, breaking her knee and a finger, and causing extensive bruising to her face and body.
But Xie just walked off, leaving bystanders to call an urgently-required ambulance.
Since then the woman has spent six weeks in hospital, had several surgeries and still requires physiotherapy treatment.
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In her victim impact statement read out in court she said she relives the horrifying experience “over and over again”, needed nurse’s help to get out of bed, and was too scared to ever walk alone again.
In her daughter’s statement she said she was shocked to see the state her mother was in when she went to see her in hospital.
“I thought we were going to lose her,” she said.
Representing himself in court, Xie said “he” was the victim as dogs did what they wanted.
“I can’t control what is in the dog’s mind,” Xie said.
“I can’t control when it chooses to bite someone.”
Magistrate Pauline Spencer said Xie should have rendered assistance, but the attack happened quickly, the dogs were on leashes and it was “a difficult situation”.
She convicted and fined him $2000, and he must pay council costs of $500. She refused a council request to have the dog, which remains in the pound, destroyed.
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