Pit Bull Dog Attack In Pennsylvania Leaves Montgomery County Girl Scarred And In The Hospital – Experienced Philadelphia Dog Bit Lawyer Weighs In
According to news sources, Danielle Leven’s future – and face – may never be the same. According to the Lansdale pit bull dog bite victim, she and a friend went to visit a friend, knocked on the door, and entered the house to yell for her friend who was apparently in the shower. The pit bull dog, according to the victim, “weaseled its head out until the door was wide open and jumped on her and latched onto her face. She claimed that she engaged in a fight, pushing and kicking the dog off and then was taken to Lansdale Hospital. The victim stated “I thought I was going to die. It punctured underneath my chin, its teeth were up into my mouth, I was squirting blood, I thought I was going to lose so much blood that I was not going to make it.”
This unfortunate dog bite victim needed 70 stitches on her chin and inside her mouth and will require several plastic surgeries. Her father Michael Leven noted that when he saw her in the ER, half of her lip was missing and it was horrendous, “a picture that will never go away in my mind”.
According to Lansdale police Sgt. Alex Kromdyk he stated that nothing criminal occurred and noted that one needs to show culpability and negligent reckless knowing or intentional matter for a criminal charge and stated further that there is no culpability here.
As an experienced Philadelphia dog bite lawyer, I have handled many similar cases since 1979 and disagree with Sgt. Kromdyk. I believe that there is a very strong civil case here with potential criminal penalties depending on what a full investigation reveals. In Pennsylvania, depending upon the extent of the injuries and the circumstances surrounding the dog bite, dog bite injury victims are legally entitled to hold a dog’s owner responsible for injuries. If a dog is not on a leash or is not properly secured on the owner’s premises or the dog owner knew that his or her god was prone to violence yet did not take proper safety measures to prevent someone from being bitten, mauled, or killed, the owner can be found financially held liable in Pennsylvania court.
