Five years each suspended in plea bargain WAYNESBORO, Virginia––Penny L. Bachlor, 65, and Stephen Christopher Kachmar, 60, on February 3, 2023 escaped jail time with plea bargained sentences for the January 29, 2022 Rottweiler mauling death of seven-year-old Olivia Grace Floyd. Both defendants entered guilty pleas to reduced charges ten days before a scheduled five-day […]
Georgia pit bull owner hit with rare criminal charges in mother’s death
Fewer than 15% of fatal dog attacks bring prosecutions of dog owners LaGRANGE, Georgia––Rosetta Marian Russell Gesselman, 81, of La Grange, Georgia, on October 7, 2022 became the 56th dog attack fatality of the year in the U.S. and Canada. Forty-three of the 56 dog attack victims thus far in 2022 were not the actual […]
Family Rottweiler raised from pup kills first dog attack victim of 2022, age 7
Three nurses in the victim’s family (See also Rottweiler killing of seven-year-old brings murder charges in Virginia.) WAYNESBORO, Virginia––Seven-year-old Olivia Grace Floyd’s mother, Alicia Floyd, 37, has for almost 17 years been a registered nurse at Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisburg, Virginia. Olivia Grace Floyd’s father, Brooks Floyd, 39, is a nurse practitioner in […]