Ashland County mother whose 6-year-old son was attacked by family dog while handcuffed sentenced to prison
Angelina Williams, 28, was sentenced to 20-plus years in prison for an incident that took place Aug. 17 at a Savannah, Ohio, home in Ashland County. She previously pleaded guilty to seven felony charges, including child endangerment, kidnapping and obstructing justice.
Williams is serving consecutive prison terms adding up to between 23 and 28 and a half years, according to court documents.
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Prosecutors said Williams, her boyfriend and uncle handcuffed the boy by the ankles and wrists as a form of discipline since the child refused to clean up after the dog.
The boy somehow slipped when the adults were trying to put him in a chair and the dog attacked, officials said.
Ashland sheriff's department video (as seen in the video player at the top of the story) shows deputies providing first aid to the child, who was then taken by helicopter to a hospital for treatment.
The boy had reportedly been bit on the neck and ear, but was eventually released from the hospital.
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The boy and his older sister were visiting their mother at the time the attack took place. Williams lost custody of the two children in 2019.
In a court appearance in August, Williams told a judge she did not know it was illegal to use handcuffs on a child.
'The dog is not even my dog. The cuffs are not even my cuffs,' Williams said in court. ' I didn't even know the cuffs were illegal or anything was wrong with it. My uncle told me it was OK.'
Co-defendants Taylor Desiree Marvin-Brown and the owner of the dog, Robert Michalski — both charged with child endangering among other things — are being sentenced on July 14 and July 21 respectively, court records show.
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