Franklin County et al. Sued in Red Bay Death

 

Unfortunately, not all dogs are as beatific as the ones pictured above. Remember the pack of seven to nine Red Bay dogs that killed two women last spring? Now the family of one victim is suing Franklin County and a great many more for negligence. 

The defendants are:

Brandy Dowdy, owner of the dogs

Billy Joe Crumpton, owner's landlord

Four employees of the Franklin Sheriff's Office

Franklin County

Franklin Emergency Communications

Franklin County Animal Control

Will the family of Jacqueline Beard win the suit? Unless the judge and/or jury are brained damaged, they certainly will. How can we be so sure?

The sheriff's office should have, by law, impounded all the dogs many times over; therefore, Mrs. Beard was led to believe the animals were not on the property. Why was this not done? According to witnesses, the sheriff's department had ordered no one to curtail the dogs until after the June election primaries. You might want to read that one again.

Also, Mrs. Beard wasn't the only victim to die. The pack's first reported human victim died the day after Beard, an employee of the ADPH who was investigating the previous attack. We predict a second lawsuit is in the works.

There aren't words to describe how horrible this is. We do expect the family's attorney to make up some new ones in this case.