Sando woman wants compensation after pompeks bite girl, 14

THE mother of a 14-year-old school girl who was attacked and bitten by three pompeks on Monday is demanding compensation for her child’s injuries. Outraged over the incident and the seeming uncaring attitude of the dog’s owners, Karlene Adams, a tenant of the Embacadere NHA apartments, is calling on NHA officials to investigate the incident. Adams told Newsday earlier this week that NHA should investigate the incident since the NHA housing contracts state that tenants are not allowed to have dogs on the compound, neither are they allowed to place plants along  the banister of the apartments. Admitting that she herself was the owner of two dogs, Adams explained: “I not afraid to say that I have two dogs, but I make sure they are secured at all times.” Recalling the incident on Monday, Adams said her daughter, Simone Cooper, was securing their two dogs near the washroom area at the back of their apartment home when Cooper was attacked by three pompeks, belonging to a nearby tenant.                                                            

The child was bitten on both legs and had to seek medical treatment at the San Fernando General Hospital. Adams said her daughter was still experiencing pains. The woman made it clear that initially she did not want money from the dogs’ owner, but only for them to stand the cost of the medical expenses. “All they give me is twenty dollars and tell me that is enough. I had to travel to go the hospital and health centre with her. That money cannot buy my child’s medicine,” Adams complained. The distressed woman said she reported the incident to San Fernando police and an officer told  her that the dogs’ owners had to give her compensation. However, Adams insisted that to date, she has not received any compensation from the owner of the pompeks, except the $20.