Son throws mom to dogs
2005-01-16 09:10
Sao Paulo, Brazil - A housepainter has been charged with murder after he threw his 88-year-old mother into a neighbour's yard in Sao Paulo where two pitbulls mauled her to death, a local newspaper reported on Friday.
Luiz Polidoro, 48, grabbed his mother Maria Mauroni and hurled her into his neighbour's yard where the two dogs attacked her on Wednesday.
Polidoro tried to rescue his mother but she died hours later in hospital, according to the O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper.
The owner of the two dogs said Polidoro was an alcoholic who frequently stole his mother's pension money to go out drinking.
Polidoro told police his mother jumped over the two-metre wall on her own. Police were not immediately available to confirm the report.
- AP