By Claudia Liburd
Nevis Reporter
(Charlestown, Nevis) --- On Tuesday evening 75 year-old Wilma Griffith of Marion Heights sustained an attack by Rottweiler dogs which left her with critical injuries to her face and body. The incident occurred at about 7 p.m. on Tuesday evening while Griffith was walking down the Island Main Road after attending a get-together at Mem’s Pizzaria. While walking Griffith said that she noticed a brown dog barking at her alongside the opposite side of the road from Noel’s Courtesy Garage. However, she said that she continued walking as ‘dogs will be dogs’.
However, shortly after the brown dog incited two other large black Rottweiler dogs with its barking and Griffith soon found herself being attacked by the three dogs.
“At first I paid them no mind as dogs will be dogs then I realized that they were really coming at me. So then I had a bag so I decided to try to take the bag to try to get them away but in the process of doing that the big one came up as well. I had to back up as they were coming at me. Then there was a drain so I had to step over the drain as they were coming over me”, said Griffith during a brief interview with Sknvibes.com.
She continued, “The dogs just started coming at me and the first bite that they gave me was in my right hip and that wound is an inch and a half deep. Then the three dogs were on me and I didn’t know what to do so I was just there screaming and then as God would have it someone came up in jeep and said ‘Look at those dogs with that woman there!’ and he stopped and came out and it was so lucky that he had a cutlass and he got them off me and he put me in the seat and then we waited in the jeep so we called the police but they never came so he called my niece.” ~~Adz:Right~~
After her niece Marva Pinney was contacted and arrived on the scene Griffith explained that they were still unable to get out of the jeep as the dogs were still looming outside of the vehicles waiting for them. During the time that they were waiting a man came and secured the dogs inside the Noel’s Courtesy Garage property and Pinney was able to take Griffith to the hospital.
Griffith was treated at the Alexandra Hospital and on Thursday morning she was transported to the Joseph N. France Hospital in St. Kitts to be treated for injuries to her left eye, right hip, left shoulder and other various cuts and bruises about her body from the ordeal. Griffith is presently in stable condition at the Alexandra Hospital in Charlestown.
Police were contacted however were unable to give comments at the time of publication.
