SUFFIELD — An area couple’s second enchantment to avoid wasting their canine from being euthanized was dismissed on Monday.
Superior Court Judge Henry Cohn dismissed the enchantment from Neil and Annie Hornish, who’ve been preventing to avoid wasting their canine Dexter, who killed an older girl at their home in November 2019.
Suffield Town Attorney Derek Donnelly confirmed the choice was made in favor of the city and the state Department of Agriculture, which had denied the couple’s first enchantment.
“We have argued constantly that if there was ever case the place a disposal order was justified it was this case,” Donnelly mentioned. “The courtroom’s determination upholding the Department of Agriculture and animal management officer underscores that time as soon as once more. I hope that is the top of this matter and the D’Aleo household and the taxpayers of Suffield are capable of lastly transfer on from this tragic affair.”
According to police, Enfield resident Janet D’Aleo, 95, was visiting the Hornish household’s Suffield home on Nov. 6, 2019 when Dexter knocked her to the ground and mauled her. Dexter, a pit bull/Pointer combine, attacked D’Aleo shortly after she arrived to go to her good friend, Agnes Wosko, Annie Hornish’s mom, in response to a police report.
D’Aleo was transported to the hospital, the place she died. The state health worker dominated that D’Aleo’s dying was attributable to canine bites.
Suffield’s animal management officer signed a disposal order for Dexter within the days after the attack, however the Hornishes appealed that call with the Department of Agriculture. The division upheld the order in December 2020, main the couple to file their enchantment with the Superior Court in February 2021.
The Hornishes have additionally been sued by D’Aleo’s household, who agreed to a settlement of $2 million.