Louisville news B4 Regional briefs B5 Deaths B10, 11 Weather B12 Columnist Byron Crawford is on vacation Keith Stone, editor 582-4657, phone 582-4200, fax WEDNESDAY Holidays are time to help Rosa Boone volunteered at a California neighborhood center in Louisville. B4 When Ronald Fetchko reported to Metro Animal Services for work at 7 a.m. a week ago, he found a note that he needed to pick up a dog involved in a biting incident. Happens all the Fetchko said But whatever was routine ended when he arrived at Nanz Avenue to pick up the dog that the owner wanted to turn in after it had bitten a child in the home on Nov. 16.
As he got out of his truck, Fetchko encountered a woman who had been walking a dog on a leash. She told him that another dog, which was sitting at her feet, had attacked her grandchild the night before, he said. when the brown and white dog, a pit bull, charged at Fetchko. The lunge surprised him, Fetchko said, because the dog had been the woman, who has been identified as Kay Morgan by Animal Services. The oncoming dog snapped at he backed up toward his truck.
When he fell, the dog kept Fetchko said he got the dog in ascissor hold with his legs and used his hands around the throat to hold off the animal. Anumber of thoughts went through his head, he said, including, this the was he said. was chaos and In the ensuing struggle, the dog got loose. Fetchko said he rose to his hands and knees when the dog came at him again, biting him on the back of his head. As Fetchko got up, the dog bit him on the left side of his face and nose.
Then Fetchko man- aged to get into his truck, but as he did, the dog attacked his left forearm. The pit bull continued jumping at the vehicle once Fetchko was inside. Fetchko radioed for help, telling to a dispatcher, he said, to 911, call 911. He got me By that time, Courier-Journal reporter Peter Smith, who was on his way to an assignment, drove up, and believing Fetchko had been involved in an accident because he was bleeding, got out of his car to help. As Smith got out of his car, dog immediately went for Fetchko said.
He had to do something. just stand by and see another person being mauled by a Fetchko said. The officer put his truck in gear and unsuccessfully tried to Routine dog pickup became and for officer By Gregory A. Hall The Courier-Journal See DOG B3, col. 1 A19-year-old Louisville man has been charged with fetal homicide, accused of beating his wife so severelythat her unborn child died.
Eric Adam Trask was arrested about 12:30 p.m. yesterday and charged with the death of the 5-month-old fetus carried by his wife, Samantha E. Trask. He also was charged with assault in violation of a protective order that barred him from contact with his wife. This is the first time a fetal homicide charge has been filed in Jefferson County, said Officer Dwight Mitchell, a Louisville Metro Police spokesman.
Rep. Bob Damron, D-Nicholasville, who sponsored new legislation establishing the crime of fetal homicide, said that as far as he knows, the arrest marks the first time the law has been ap- pliedin Kentucky. The legislature passed the law in it a crime to kill a fetus or an embryo through an attack on a woman. Damron said prosecutors have the option of seeking manslaughter or murder convictions in fetalhomicide cases. The death penalty may not be applied.
Samantha Trask called police about 10 a.m. yesterday to report that she had been assaulted, Mitchell said. Trask told police that she had been hit six to eight times in the head and stomach on Monday night at her home in the 6500 block of Bridleview Circle, off Briscoe Lane. It until yesterday morning, Mitchell said, that she was able to get out of her house to call police. Trask was taken to University Hospital, where an ultrasound showed that the fetus had died, Mitchell said.
Sheremainsat the hospital in stable condition, he said. Eric and Samantha Trask were married in Julybut separated in August, according to court records. She filed for divorce on Aug. 18. The filing followed an alleged incident on Aug.
15 that led to the protective order. In the petition for that order, Louisvillian charged with fetal homicide Case might be first under new state law By Jessie Halladay The Courier-Journal See FETAL B3, col. 6 ALouisville man was arrested yesterday afternoon on charges that he held a 15-year-old girl captive in his home for two monthswhileraping her and forcing her into prostitution. Walter Brady is being held in the Jefferson County jail and will be arraigned today on charges of rape, unlawful imprisonment, use of a minor in a sexual performance, sodomy, sexual abuse and promoting prostitution. Brady, 53, is accused of taking the girl from a foster home in Campbellsburg, Sept.
16 andthreatening her if she did not leave with him, according to police. The foster parents filed a missing-person report, according to a criminal complaint filed by police. The teenager, who met Brady last year through a mutual friend, was found last week after afriend of the girl called police, said Louisville Metro Police Detective Brian Sherrard. The teen was not with Brady when police were called and when she was found, he said. Brady, of the 6000 block of Applegate Way, also is accused of videotaping and photographing the girl while she had sex.
He also took her to Bullitt County and to Indiana and Florida, where she was forced to have sex with men for money, police said. Sherrard said the girl was warned that she would be hurt if she left or told anyone about her situation. She also was physically abused, according to the criminal complaint. always had an idea of her whereabouts and threatened to harm her if she sought help from police or anyone Sherrard said. felt there would be repercussions if she tried to Man faces rape charge after girl, 15, is found Police say he forced her into prostitution By Jason Riley The Courier-Journal Kentucky prosecutors yesterday revived their pursuit of a former church day-care worker whose child-molestation conviction was overturned by a court that said that police fabricated evidence.
Attorney General Greg Stumbo has decided to ask the state Supreme Court to hear the case, which sparked outrage in Richmond. Joey Dean Herndon was charged in the sexual abuse case and later convicted. attorneys looked at it and decided that the Supreme Court should take a second Stumbo spokeswoman Jennifer Dean said yesterday. Last Friday, the Kentucky Court of Appeals overturned conviction in 2000 of sexually abusing a boy at the church-based Lighthouse Child Care Center in Richmond. Herndon was sentenced to five years, but was freed on bond pending his appeal.
He has since moved to Lexington and gotten married. The center, which cared for children from low-income families, was closed by the state. In anopinion for the three- judge panel, Judge Wilfrid A. Schroder said Richmond police Detective Ellen Alexander had relied on evi- in her investigation of Herndon. Schroder said the case lacked physical evidence or eyewitnesses.
Stumbo will file the appeal to the high court at the request of the prosecutor in the case, Madison Attorney Thomas Smith. felt that he was guilty and Review of overturned molestation conviction sought By Bruce Schreiner Associated Press See HERNDON B3, col. 6 Severalorganizations that deal with girls asked for help from the Louisville Metro Council last night, saying that those in certain districts are more likely to grow up in poverty. The groups, includingthe Alliance for Girls and Kentucky Youth Advocates, presented a study to the council that found high pockets of poverty insomedistricts, along with associated problems such as teenage pregnancy and an inclination to drop out of school. Members of the Louisville Girls Leadership Summit joined the advocacy groups to meet with council members and ask for help.
The high poverty rates are in the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 15th council districts. my parents have the resources to support me, I will HEATHER HUNT 18, duPont Manual High senior Groups address plight By Michael Hayman, The Courier-Journal A group of girls presented data from a report showing the plight of young females in Jefferson County and how poverty might affect them at a news conference last night in Louisville. Metro Council briefed on report identifying pockets of poverty By Steve Durbin, The Courier-Journal 1 3 2 55 5 6 77 7 88 8 9 10 1111 11 12 13 14 15 1717 17 1818 18 1919 19 2020 20 2222 22 23 24 25 1616 16 21 2626 26 44 4 65 71 64 265 264 65 264 64 Percentage of girls in poverty Less than 7 to 12 to 19 to or more Source: U.S. Census Bureau By Metro Council District By Joseph Gerth The Courier-Journal See PLIGHT B3, col. 1.
