14 Jan 2005 18:49:45 GMT
Source: Reuters
SAO PAULO, Brazil, Jan 14 (Reuters) - A Brazilian man arguing with his 88-year-old mother threw her into a neighbors' yard where two pit bulls mauled her to death, police said on Friday.
Painter Luiz Polidoro, 48, picked up his mother Maria and pitched her over the yard wall during an argument on Thursday afternoon at her house. Two pit bulls tied up in the neighboring yard then savaged her and she died later in hospital, a police spokesman said.
"He is an alcoholic. He was robbing his mother's pension money so he could drink," the dogs' owner, Helder Bento Rodrigues, told O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper.
Polidoro told police his mother had jumped over the wall on her own.
The newspaper said he had tried to rescue her. When police arrived, he was cradling the blood-soaked woman.
Polidoro has been jailed in Sao Paulo and charged with murder.
My only comment about this is that it is a horrible event that occured with that man and his mom and he has to have the maximum penalty including pit-bulls going to him
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