The mother of 12-year-old San Francisco boy killed by the family�s two pit bulls earlier this month was arrested today on a warrant charging her with felony child endangerment causing death.
The charges against Maureen Faibish, 39, could lead to a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison if she is convicted. Eileen Hirst of the San Francisco Sheriff�s Department confirmed that Faibish had been booked into the county jail and was being held on $75,000 bail.Faibish, reached before her arrest today, said simply: �I know I didn�t do anything wrong.�� She said her concerns were for the 8-year-old Santa Rosa girl attacked and mauled by a neighbor�s pit bull Wednesday. The animal also attacked the girl�s mother. . . .
[F]aibish left her son, Nicholas, alone in the family�s home on Lincoln Way in the Sunset District when she went to run errands June 3. One of the family�s two pit bulls had bitten the boy earlier that day, investigators believe. The father was out of state in Oregon at the time of the attack. . . .
[M]aureen Faibish told The Chronicle in an interview the day after the attack that she had left Nicholas in the basement, given him snacks and video games and propped a shovel against the door to keep the pit bulls from getting in. She said she had been worried about the male dog, Rex, because he had been acting possessively toward the other pit bull, Ella, who was in heat.
If she was worried about the dogs, why didn't she put them in the basement, instead of her son? Details here from the San Francisco Chronicle.