Doylestown Intelligencer 12/02/2012
A Perkasie lawyer who specializes in dog bite litigation announced Monday that he secured a $508,613 settlement in the case of an 8-year-old boy who was mauled by two pit bulls in 2010.
Attorney Thomas J. Newell represents Ajia Brown, a Connecticut boy who was visiting a York County residence with his family June 1, 2010. Ajia was playing outside about 9:20 p.m. when the dogs escaped from an enclosed pen behind the home and attacked him.
According to Newell, the dogs knocked the boy to the ground. One began biting his head and face, the other his lower torso. The boy’s mother jumped on top of her son to save his life, Newell said. Neighbors came out and began hitting the pit bulls with garden hoses and a shovel.
