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MANDEL: Child dog attack could have been prevented

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Published Mar 27, 2024  •  Last updated 3 hours ago  •  3 minute read

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Patrycja Siarek, 38, of Toronto (pictured), faces charges, including criminal negligence causing bodily harm, and failing to prevent dog from biting or attacking, after a nine-year-old child suffered life-altering injuries in a dog attack last Saturday at a park in the Bathurst St.-Queen's Quay area. (Police handout) Photo by Handout /Toronto Police

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If authorities had done their job, a Toronto woman says that child would never have been severely injured last weekend by a vicious off-leash dog.

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Back in 2021, Sabita Singh says she repeatedly warned Toronto Animal Services about the American pocket bullies kept by her tenant Patrycja “Trish” Siarek — especially after one of them viciously attacked and injured a woman and her puppy in their building elevator on Manitoba Ave. It was only after her condo corporation went to Superior Court in 2022 that Siarek’s dogs were removed from the unit and she and her partner were finally evicted.

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So Singh was furious when she learned a nine-year-old has suffered “life-altering injuries” after being attacked by a dog in Little Norway Park near Lake Shore Blvd. W. and that Siarek, 38, was later arrested after allegedly fleeing. She faces numerous charges, including criminal negligence causing bodily harm and failure to prevent a dog from biting or attacking a person. None of the allegations have been tested in court.

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“It’s a mixture of sadness for the family and the child and just frustration and anger,” Singh said in an interview. “That dog should have been taken from Siarek years ago; the fact that she still has it even up until now is mind-blowing to me.

“Animal control — they should have done something sooner. I don’t understand why issue a dangerous dog order when everybody’s telling you that they’re not complying with it and do nothing about it and let those dogs run wild?”

If the allegations against Siarek are true, then it was a horrible attack waiting to happen. Because it had happened before.

Justice Fred Myers warned as much two years ago. “They have not behaved as responsible dog owners,” he wrote in his ruling against Siarek and her partner, Sean Brown. “They do not obey the Dangerous Dog order, and they do not adequately protect the other residents from their dogs. They have allowed the dogs to wander the corridors unsupervised. It is clear from the videos that Ms. Siarek has difficulty controlling them physically.

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This is the dog involved in an attack in 2021 -- long before last Saturday’s incident which left a nine-year-old child with life-altering injuries. (Supplied photo)
A court found this dog was involved in an attack in 2021 — long before last Saturday’s incident which left a nine-year-old child with life-altering injuries. (Supplied photo)

“The video of the attack on December 4, 2021 leaves no doubt as to the vicious conduct of which the dogs are capable. They should not be in a condominium with people and children with owners who are not willing or able to protect their neighbours.”

In his January 2022 decision, Myers noted the animals had been designated “dangerous dogs” by the city after the Dec. 4, 2021 attack, which meant a warning sign had to be posted on the owners’ door and their pets had to be muzzled in public. But the judge said he saw video evidence that they hadn’t been muzzled and one of the dogs had actually entered an elevator again while unleashed.

Myers agreed with Singh that no one seemed willing to help her: Efforts to get the city’s bylaw enforcement branch to act had been “for naught” while her expedited hearing at the Landlord and Tenant Board was adjourned for months because the adjudicator wanted to hear from another witness.

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So to protect other tenants, the judge ordered the dogs removed from the condo by the end of January 2022.

When the court found the couple didn’t comply, the Sherriff and animal control officers went to seize them on Feb. 10. “However, as the dogs had not been ordered confiscated, they gave the dogs to Ms. Siarek who left with them,” the judge wrote in a later decision.

Singh couldn’t believe it — her tenant had assured animal control that she wouldn’t bring her dogs back to the condo.

But Myers found they were then secretly moved back into the unit in violation of his order. In a subsequent March 2022 ruling, he ordered the couple evicted with prophetic words: “They place their own desire to handle their dogs as they wish above the rights of the other users of the condominium common areas to be safe from threats of attack and injury. How easy would it have been to simply muzzle the dogs in common areas?

“Instead Mr. Brown and Ms. Siarek repeatedly ignore others’ safety and security and take the risk that one or both dogs will attack. That only one person and pet have been seriously hurt is happenstance.”

Inevitably, someone was going to get hurt again.

“I just feel so sorry for the injuries that happened to the child,” Singh says angrily. “If action had been taken back in 2021, none of this would have happened.”

mmandel@postmedia.com

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