WORCESTER \u2013 \u2019n Oomblik van afwagting het Erfenisdag op sy kop gekeer toe Janette Knox, \u2019n 57-jarige inwoner van Worcester, op 24 September in die oggend genadiglik aan die kake van \u2019n wilde boerboel ontsnap het. <\/p>\n
Wat \u2019n rustige stap na haar susterskind se huis moes wees, het in \u2019n bloedstollende stryd om oorlewing ontaard.<\/p>\n
Knox het vertel hoe sy net \u2019n paar huise van haar huis af in die Hospitaal Heuwel-omgewing gestap het toe sy skielik deur die reusehond aangeval is. <\/p>\n
\u201cEk het niks vermoed nie, want ek het die hond vroe\u00ebr saam met drie seuns gesien. Hy het \u2019n ketting om sy nek gehad, maar geen leiband nie. Ek het nie besef hy kom in my rigting aangehardloop nie,\u201d het sy met \u2019n bewerige stem ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n
Die volgende oomblik het die boerboel sonder waarskuwing op haar afgestorm en haar aan die regterbobeen gegryp en sy tande diep in haar vleis ingeslaan. <\/p>\n
Die hond het sy kop met \u2019n onheilspellende gekerm van kant tot kant geswaai soos \u2019n roofdier wat sy prooi verskeur.<\/p>\n
\u201cDaai geluid … die klank van sy tande wat deur my vlees sny \u2013 dit sal ek nooit vergeet nie,\u201d het Janette vertel. <\/p>\n
Die paniek het haar oorval terwyl sy in die hond se dodelike greep vasgevang was. <\/p>\n
\u201cEk het gedink ek gaan sterf,\u201d voeg sy by. <\/p>\n
\u201c<\/p>\n
\u201cEk het my hand in sy bek gedruk in \u2019n desperate poging om sy lugweg toe te druk, maar dit was tevergeefs. <\/p>\n
\u201cEk was magteloos.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gelukkig het bure in die omgewing Janette se angskrete gehoor en hulle tot haar redding gesnel. Een van hulle het die moed gehad om haar te help, terwyl ander agterna bygekom het om die hond uiteindelik van haar af weg te kry. Kort daarna het haar suster se skoonseun by die toneel opgedaag. <\/p>\n
\u201cHy het my gevra of ek nog lewe,\u201d onthou Janette. \u201cEk het vir hom ges\u00ea ek lewe, maar ek kan nie loop nie.\u201d Hy het haar versigtig op \u2019n grasperk neergesit terwyl hulle die ambulans gebel het.<\/p>\n
Janette is dadelik hospitaal toe geneem, waar sy noodoperasies ondergaan het om die diep wonde te behandel. Haar herstel was egter nie sonder komplikasies nie. <\/p>\n
\u201cEk het Maandag teruggegaan, maar die dokter het ges\u00ea die weefsel genees nie goed nie. Dit klink of hulle dooie weefsel sal moet uitsny,\u201d het sy teleurgesteld ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n
Wat hierdie tragiese aanval soveel pynliker maak, is die feit dat Knox self \u2019n diereliefhebber is. <\/p>\n
Ironies genoeg het sy al verskeie kere met die hond se eienaar oor die boerboel gepraat. <\/p>\n
\u201cDaardie hond was altyd buite vasgemaak, in die hitte van Worcester, sonder water en kos. Ek het verskeie kere probeer om vir hom op te kom, maar kyk wat het nou gebeur,\u201d het sy ges\u00ea. <\/p>\n
Knox het besluit om die voorval nie daar te laat nie. Sy het \u2019n klagte by die polisie aangemeld. <\/p>\n
\u201cEk het \u2019n verklaring afgel\u00ea en die speurder het belowe om na my toe te kom. Die hond is steeds by sy eienaars, maar ek gaan dit nie net so los nie,\u201d het sy vasberade ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n
Die polisiewoordvoerder AO Vathiswa Jacobs het bevestig die klagte is op 25 September by die Worcester-polisiekantoor aangemeld. \u201cDie saak is na die hof verwys, wat op die volgende stappe sal besluit,\u201d het Jacobs ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n
Janette wag nou angstig op geregtigheid, terwyl sy steeds met die emosionele en fisieke littekens van die aanval saamleef.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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