Family of dog-bite victim asks why Rottweiler wasn’t removed

The family of 11-year-old Kendra Bain can not understand why a dog that bit her and another Corbin teenager, has not been removed from the neighborhood.A two-year-old Rottweiler attacked Bain June 26, then a week later attacked 16-year-old Michelle Baker at the same Third Street residence.
The Whitley County Health Department quarantined the Rottweiler after the attack on Bain, but no charges were filed against the owner, Judy Fluty.
Bain’s family became angry when Corbin Police failed to file charges following the attack on the second girl.
Bain’s grandmother Phyllis Vanover, who lives next door to Fluty, said the dog had no business in a neighborhood where children are after attacking the two girls.
“I think the dog should be destroyed. I’m not trying to be mean or anything but it should be destroyed,” Vanover said.
“It has bit two people already and I don’t think it is safe having it around where there are kids and more might get bit,” Vanover said.
Vanover said the Rhotweiller had broken free of the chain several times before and come into her yard but had never bothered anyone.
“My husband would call it by its name and tell it to back home and run it back. It would go back home or run around the yard or in the street,” Vanover said.
Bain said she had never been afraid of dogs and had been around the Rottweiler several times before the attack, but the owners were always outside too.
The day she was bitten she had gone over to the house to get her younger brother who was in Fluty’s yard.
“When we turned to come back to our yard he jumped at me and got me by the arm,” Bain said.
Bain said since the attack, she is terrified of dogs. “I won’t go near their yard any more. If I have to walk to the neighbor on the other side of us, I climb over the fence. I don’t even like to get close to it,” Bain said.
Bain said when she was bitten the dog was chained to a tree by the driveway, closer to her grandmother’s house, but had been moved to the back yard when Baker was bitten.
A beware of dog sign was hung on the tree after the second attack, but Vanover doesn’t think that is reason to allow the dog to stay.
“When Kendra got bit the dog was closer to our yard. The only thing she did was shorten the chain a little and then put that sign up after the second girl got bit,” Vanover said.
“Kendra is afraid to even get out of the car in the driveway now. She crawls out on my side of the car,” Vanover said.
“We’re not trying to get any money out of this, we just think something needs to be done with the dog.”
Bain said she would always be nervous as long as the dog remains in the neighborhood. “I don’t know if I will ever trust dogs again.”