Dog owner charged in Randolph County attack that hospitalized daughter
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A Randolph County man was charged last week after his dog attacked a girl in Huntsville, causing her to be hospitalized.
Eric C. Cradic, 34, was charged Friday with child endangerment. His dog, Lillith, was part of a pack of seven dogs that attacked the 13-year-old girl last Tuesday, leaving her with punctures, abrasions and soft tissue damage that sent her to University Hospital, according to a probable cause statement.
The attack happened outside the girl's home on Main Street. The probable cause statement says the girl is Cradic's daughter.
A neighbor intervened with a baseball bat, allowing the girl to escape and hide, the statement says. The neighbor was also attacked and had cuts and puncture wounds.
A Randolph County sheriff's deputy called to the scene had to use force, the release says. Sheriff Andy Boggs wrote in an email in response to ABC 17 News questions that the deputy used less lethal methods at first “and when that didn’t work then the deputy switched to his service weapon.” Boggs wrote that the dog that was shot survived.
Boggs adds in a separate email to ABC 17 News that the dogs were removed from Cradic's care.
Cradic, Lillith's owner, is accused of not maintaining control of his aggressive animal. The probable cause statement says Lillith bit another person living on the street in December.
Cradic was in the Randolph County Jail on Monday on a $10,000 cash-only bond.
According to Randolph County Prosecuting Attorney Stephanie Luntsford, when dogs are taken from care during a criminal case, they are typically quarantined and observed incase they have diseases that are threatening to humans. The possibility of Cradic getting his dogs back are still up in the air.
