Okay, now I think I'm going to be sick....

Mother Explains Fatal Pit Bull Mauling - Yahoo! News

SAN FRANCISCO - The mother of a 12-year-old boy killed in his own home by one of the family's two pit bulls says she had been so concerned about one of the dogs that she shut her son in the basement to protect him. "I put him down there, with a shovel on the door," Faibish said in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. "And I told him: `Stay down there until I come back.' Typical Nicky, he wouldn't listen to me." Faibish found her son's body in a bedroom. He was covered in blood from several wounds, including a major head injury. No charges have been filed. "It's Nicky's time to go," she said in the interview. "When you're born you're destined to go and this was his time."

I cannot believe what I just read......is this woman a complete MORON??!! If you've got a problem with your dogs attacking things, you don't lock your KID in the basement, you lock the DOG in the basement! Or better yet, you have the common sense to not keep an acknowledged dangerous animal in the same house with your family. Is this so hard to figure out? I am trying to restrain the urge to drive out to San Francisco and slap Moonbeam up alongside the head.