A Pennsylvania girl was sentenced this week months after breaking right into a household’s home, biting a number of folks and stabbing a canine to dying.
Breanna Englert was sentenced Tuesday morning on eight prison expenses — together with recklessly endangering one other person, easy assault and cruelty to animals — associated to the home invasion, which took place this previous April in South Renovo.
Prosecutors mentioned that Englert, 26, was believed to be underneath the affect of medication when she broke into the home and was confronted by the owners and a neighbor, in response to a news release from the Clinton County District Attorney’s Office this week.
Englert bit the 2 victims and attacked the home-owner’s canine with a knife, inflicting the animal to have seizures and die a short while after the stabbing.
“Ms. Englert ought to thank her fortunate stars that she remains to be alive at present, as a result of in lots of the different properties in Clinton County that she may have damaged into, she would have died that evening,” district legal professional Dave Strouse mentioned at Tuesday’s sentencing.
One of the owners, a retired college instructor, additionally advised the courtroom that Englert’s break-in has left her grandchildren traumatized.
“You invited us into your world, we never invited you into ours,” the sufferer advised the courtroom, in response to the district legal professional’s workplace. “You broke into our home with a knife.”
The sufferer added: “If it wasn’t for our neighbors, I do not know what would have occurred. I actually consider our neighbors saved our lives that evening.”
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Engert pleaded responsible to the eight expenses associated to her arrest in October. She tearfully apologized to the victims in courtroom on Tuesday, in response to the district legal professional’s workplace, asking the courtroom to let her full a drug rehabilitation program, insisting her habit to prescribed drugs and methamphetamine had been the first explanation for her prison historical past, in response to the DA’s workplace.
Clinton County Court of Common Pleas Judge Michael F. Salisbury sentenced Englert to a 12-year most sentence with the eligibility for parole after three and a half years. During Englert’s sentencing, Judge Salisbury cited her two prior convictions for easy assault, in response to the district legal professional’s workplace.
