Vermilion Parish Police Jury lets mixed pit bull live despite it biting 10-year-old boy

The Vermilion Parish Police Jury has decided to let Gates, a mixed pit bull, live despite it biting and drawing blood on the calf of a 10-year-old boy.
Pam Monceaux, the director of the rabies/control center of police jury, followed protocol and declared the dog “vicious” based on the police jury ordinance, a animal bites a human and is not provoked, it is declared vicious and may be put down.
Gates bit a 10-year-old boy who was running away at Stonebridge Apartment Complex on Rodeo Road in Abbeville. The bite was bad enough to where it drew blood and the child was taken to the emergency room at Abbeville General.
Despite the attack on the child, the owner of the dog, April Lancon, made a plea to the police jurors not to kill her dog. The 10-year-old boy, who was bitten, also made a plea not to kill the dog at a committee meeting last week.
At Monday’s regular meeting, the police jury over road Monceaux’s recommendation and declared the dog, “dangerous” despite it biting a 10-year-old child.
The dog now gets to live but it has to follow guidelines when it is outside. It was released to the owner Tuesday morning.
Police jurors Errol Domingues and Kevin Sagrera were not happy with the jury’s decision to change the recommendation of the rabies/control supervisor. They wanted the dog declared vicious because the ordinance states if a dog bites a human, it will be declared vicious.
The police jury is expected to look into its definitions of “vicious” and “dangerous” dogs.
In other police jury business:
The jurors created a sub committee to discus and create new policies for the rabies/animal control program.
On the sub-committee are: Tracy Davenport McGraw, Brandy LeJuene, Beth Trahan, Cindy Hunt, along with jurors Ronald Menard, Ronald Darby, Mark Poché and chairman Wayne Touchet. Billy Noegel, the public works director, was added to the committee on Monday.