The husband of a San Diego woman whose limbs were nearly torn off in a pit bull attack asked a judge to make sure the dog’s owners suffer too.
Emako Mendoza, 75, was attacked June 18, 2011 when she stepped outside her home to get the newspaper.
Her husband, James Mendoza, spoke through quivering lips as he described his wife’s attack at Monday’s sentencing.
The dogs' owners, Carla Cornelio and her mother Alba Cornelio, were convicted of involuntary manslaughter and death from a mischievous animal.
The Mendoza’s Paradise Hills home shared a side fence with the home where the pit bulls were kept. The dogs entered the yard through a hole in the fence.
James Mendoza recalled the morning when his wife of 55 years was blindsided by her neighbor’s large dogs.
Mendoza said his wife, who was barely 5-foot, had no way of getting away from them. “She had no one to help her,” he said.
Even with his years in the military, Mendoza said he had never seen anything like it.
“She was completely tore up,” he said. “All of her limbs were completely dangling, hanging.”
Emako Mendoza, 75, was attacked June 18, 2011 when she stepped outside her home to get the newspaper.
Her husband, James Mendoza, spoke through quivering lips as he described his wife’s attack at Monday’s sentencing.
The dogs' owners, Carla Cornelio and her mother Alba Cornelio, were convicted of involuntary manslaughter and death from a mischievous animal.
The Mendoza’s Paradise Hills home shared a side fence with the home where the pit bulls were kept. The dogs entered the yard through a hole in the fence.
James Mendoza recalled the morning when his wife of 55 years was blindsided by her neighbor’s large dogs.
Mendoza said his wife, who was barely 5-foot, had no way of getting away from them. “She had no one to help her,” he said.
Even with his years in the military, Mendoza said he had never seen anything like it.
“She was completely tore up,” he said. “All of her limbs were completely dangling, hanging.”
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