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Pit bull declared 'vicious' after Manville attack
'Tank,' who mauled to death a neighbor's Yorkshire terrier, had attacked others in the past
By MEGHAN KAVANAUGH
Valley Breeze Staff Writer
meghan@valleybreeze.com
LINCOLN – The pit bull
responsible for the death of
another dog last month in
Manville was unanimously
deemed "vicious" by animal
and town officials at a hearing
on Tuesday, and must either
live entirely under lock and
key for the rest of his life or be
euthanized.
According to reports and
testimony, Tank, the 13-monthold, 93-pound pit bull owned
by Bouvier Avenue resident
Simon Moussa, attacked
55-year-old Luz Molina on
Aug. 22, in the Enrico Caruso
Club parking lot on Vose Street
after getting loose from his
yard.
He killed one of Molina's
dogs, injured another, and sent
Molina to the hospital with bite
marks and scrapes, causing her
to miss five days of work.
Molina cried during her testimony at the hearing at Town
Hall, saying she would rather
have lost a finger than her
7-year-old Yorkshire Terrier,
Tyson, because at least that
would heal.
"That was the most horrifying
time of my life," she said, "to
hear my baby screaming and
then he couldn't scream anymore because he was dead."
A framed photograph of
See PIT BULL, Page 14
A heartwarming
Kenyan experience
for NorthPointe
Church group
By MEGHAN KAVANAUGH
Valley Breeze Staff Writer
meghan@valleybreeze.com
LINCOLN – Back from
a two-week trip to slums in
Nairobi, Kenya, members
of the NorthPointe Christian
Church can hardly contain their
emotions as they reflect on the
experience.
One story leads to another
as they describe a trip to the
NorthPointe Christian Church member Steve Kilsey, of Lincoln, walks down one of the streets of the Mathare Valley that is so denseMathare Valley slums in Nairobi, Kenya. Villagers live in tin shanties without electricity, running water or ly populated, it can be equated
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to fitting the entirety of Rhode
Island into Central Falls, side
by side in one-story, 8-by-8-foot
tin shanties.
There are both laughs and
tears as the NorthPointe members talk about visiting families
and children with disabilities,
meeting some of their dozens of
sponsor children and teaching
the village how to play T-ball
and purify water, along with
members from SouthPointe
Christian Church in Warwick
See KENYA, Page 18
