By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Staff Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A WOMAN was fined after admitting to allowing her pit bulls to roam free, leading to an attack on a 78-year-old woman on her way to church near Goodman’s Close and Johnson Road earlier this month.
Assistant Chief Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans arraigned Brittany Lockhart, 27, on two counts of keeping an unlicensed dog and two counts of allowing an animal to roam dangerously in a public place.
Prosecutors said Lockhart’s brown and brown-and-white pit bulls were loose on February 9 when they bit Suzanne Kemp on her legs as she walked to church.
Lockhart pleaded guilty to all charges.
The court fined her $500 for failing to license her dogs and ordered her to pay Ms Kemp $500 in compensation. Failure to comply will result in three months in prison.
Magistrate Vogt-Evans told Lockhart she must properly secure her property before the dogs can be returned to her. The Bahamas Humane Society will inspect her property, and if they submit a satisfactory report to the court, the animals will be released back to her.
Lockhart is scheduled to return to court on March 19.
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