Chicago police have arrested 3 people and rescued 9 dogs at a daycare center.
The dogs suffered horrific injuries and required
hospitalization. Many were being kept and trained at the
children’s daycare facility, with 10 children at the center.
The
daycare operator insisted she wasn’t involved, though her husband was one
of three charged with felony dogfighting. She has since complied with DCFS
to give over her daycare license.
The Illinois DCFS received
complaints about the dogs and made 4 visits to the house, finding “no
evidence of the dogs in the day-care area.” The garage had
bloodstained floors, blood along the sides of a car and dogfighting
paraphernalia. One of the vicious fighting dogs was being kept ten feet
from the swing set.
All of the dogs are being treated at the Animal Welfare League in Chicago and are expected to recover.
The National Association to Protect Children is a national, pro-child, anti-crime membership association. We are founded on the belief that our first and most sacred obligation as parents, citizens, and members of the human species is the protection of children from harm.
PROTECT is a bipartisan pro-child, anti-crime lobby whose sole focus is making the protection of children a top political and policy priority at the national, state and local level.
