Last year an owner of pit bulls in Detroit that killed a little 4 year old boy right in front of his mother was found guilty of manslaughter. He was originally charged with second-degree murder.

The dogs had engaged with the child before (neighbor's dogs). The mother thought of them to be harmless like puppies. That was before the pit bulls knocked down the mother and ripped the child from her grasp while walking to school, dragged him away from his mother and under a fence into the yard where the dogs were kept, then chomped him to death with 90 puncture wounds.

There's several stories on it. I didn't see anything about the owner treating the dogs poorly. The dogs had got out before on different occasions but reportedly no one called animal control. Reportedly the dogs prevented anyone from getting near to save the boy during the attack. Nice dogs one minute... killers the next? Police shot the dogs and got the boy... good guys with guns.


Owner of pit bulls guilty in death of Detroit boy, 4

Jurors watch video of dogs mauling 4-year-old Detroit boy