A news release called the scene at the three Maywood homes "the most gruesome officers had ever uncovered." One dog had its eye ripped out, another had a leg twisted backward, and a third had its lower extremities almost severed from its body.
A licensed day care operation operated from one house, and one of the three ringleaders arrested in the case is related to the day care operator, the sheriff's office said.
"Kids were playing on a swing set just 10 feet away from a vicious fighting dog and blood-stained floors," Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said in a news release. "The very equipment used to train these dogs to kill was being kept in the garage right behind the house. To be engaged in this sort of activity is disturbing enough, but to take a chance with anybody's children is reprehensible."
When police got to the day care facility, children were being watched at the house. In a garage behind the house was a dangerous pit bull, according to the sheriff's release.
There was also blood on the floor and along the sides of a car in the garage, and there were syringes, medication, bite sticks, and dog fighting harnesses, police said. The highly aggressive pit bull found in the garage had a shredded chest from recent fights, and his penis was almost completely bitten off, the release said.
The day care operator said she wasn't involved in dog fighting, and the children weren't allowed near the dogs or dog fighting materials.
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- WakeUpPeople
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This is so incredibly disturbing. It takes a special kind of evil to cause this kind of abuse.
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This is so fucking wrong! Another group of people that need an ass whopping and need to go to Jail for at least 15yrs!!!
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What the hell?
Oh da kids were nowheres nears the doggies.
.....the bullet, good sir, was nowhere near the kid. It just grazed right on by. He's still livin'.
Proximity to danger for any child that you're suppose to protect should be so close to nil that is' amazing. She knew that there were dogs tearing into one another but what she cared about was the double income she was getting.
Legit business up front. Black market crap in the back.
When one thinks they can't be shocked any more from the dumb things people do....or, for that matter, allow.
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Justice came in time, people....animals are to be treated with respect...
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- metalcookiesxy70
- 2 months ago
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How many pro-football losers did they bust?
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This is disturbing and it's a good thing for everybody that it's in police hands now. But I have questions.
From the original article, a suspect "was ticketed Tuesday for being a felon in possession of an unneutered or unspayed dog, the sheriff's office said. He was released from prison in 2006 on a drug conviction."
Are felons not allowed to have unneutered/unspayed dogs? Is this only in Illinois? Does this only apply to felons?
I've never had a dog and don't really know but that just seems like a strangely worded sentence (or law).
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- isoughtajam
- 2 months ago
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dont worry isoughttajam it is weird I have had a dog all my life and never heard of this Im discusted by these people just gives me more reasons to want to beat the eagles
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If they have enough money they can play for the NFL when they get out of prison.
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- Rickharmon25
- 2 months ago
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hahaha i cant believe this took place at a day care!
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- SparkShark16
- 2 months ago
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According to sources I've read these dog fighting rings are all over the country. It's hard to believe that so many people are engaged in this type of evil butchery of dogs. It needs to be often talked about on the news to keep it in the public's awareness and encourage whistle blowers.
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That is horrible. No living being should be subjected to that kind of maltreatment.
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Everyone that was there, and have been there should rot in jail, then in Hell! "Oh I had no idea my ghetto family was out in my backyard fighting poor animals" PEOPLE SUCK!!!!
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- bigperm184
- 2 months ago
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What is wrong with people? How the heck could you do something so cruel to a living creature? I will never understand how people can torture animals.
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Weren't there sex offenders found living in day cares?
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- CarlosIsDown
- 2 months ago
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wait.. did the dogs fight the kids.. cause that would be newsworthy.. shoot.. youtube worthy
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- ptlmachaser
- 2 months ago
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Didn't these people learn anything from Michael Vick?
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- Future_America
- 2 months ago
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Chod77,..........I don't really get it either.
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Faith in humanity for the loss...
At the planning stage:
"Man, where we gonna hold deese fights at?"
"My sister's crib. It's a Daycare Centah, but no prob, we'll jus do it out back."
"For real. You got it like that? I can't see nutin' goin' wrong wit dis."
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- bishopobispo
- 2 months ago
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Jail, more jail maybe jail for ever for those who sponser these dog fights. That does not even cover the fact that people who sponser these fights cull suburban neighborhoods for dogs to steal to train their killer dogs on. They steal family pets and let their dogs kill them. I know, they stole my American Bulldog from my front yard never to be seen again. If I ever find a dogfight I won't call the police I'll firebomb the mother f--kers they will die a horrible death just like the dogs they kill
tommic
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wtf
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I don't understand how anyone could be this terrible. Reading the descriptions brought serious tears to my eyes.
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- lolitanimatronic
- 2 months ago
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whats up with day care these days,a week ago a guy gave cocaine to his 4 year old sun (telling him it was candy) now this.
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4 year old passes out cocaine at daycare thinking it was candy
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bad enough that dog fighting even exist,but near a day care center. take that b*(^h and string her up by the feet.
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i hate this. makes my heart hurt. people suck.
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- katiekrafka
- 2 months ago
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