Mum whose husky mauled her three-month-old daughter to death faces jail over horror attack
A MUM whose dangerous husky mauled her three-month-old daughter to death in a late night attack is facing jail.
Karen Alcock, 41, today pleaded guilty to being in charge of the out-of-control dog when it killed baby Kyra Leanne King.
Kyra's dad Vince King, 54, denied being in charge and/or the owner during a plea hearing at Lincoln Crown Court on Friday.
Emergency services charged to Ostlers Plantation, a sledding track, near Woodhall Spa, Lincs, just after 11pm on March 6 this year.
Tiny Kyra was pronounced dead at the scene after being found with fatal injuries to her neck and head.
She had been savaged by a husky sled dog called Blizzard.
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Family friends said her parents had taken her on a husky racing training trip before she was killed.
The area is one of the few in the country where racers can legally practice being pulled on sleds by their dogs.
Her parents, of New York, near Coningsby, Lincs., were later charged by police after paramedics alerted them of the horror.
On Friday the case was adjourned and the couple were both granted unconditional bail.
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Alcock will be sentenced next year while King will stand trial next June.
Addressing them both, Judge Simon Hirst said Miss Alcock's guilty plea will stand her in "really good stead" with the court.
But he told Mr King: "Given that your defence is effectively this is nothing to do with you, it's all to do with Miss Alcock...
"I'm afraid Miss Alcock will have to wait till the trial to be sentenced."
The killer husky is in isolation at a secure kennels, Lincolnshire Police are seeking a court order to have it destroyed.
Speaking last month Detective Constable Craig Davey said the investigation into Kyra's death had been "profoundly sad".
Police "kept an open mind" throughout the "lengthy and thorough" investigation that has involved specialist forensic experts.
Officers from Lincolnshire Police's Protecting Vulnerable People unit have also been involved, DC Davey added.
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He said: "We have now brought charges against two people, and will continue to work with the CPS as the case makes its way through the justice system."
The maximum sentence for owning or being the owner and/or in charge of a dog which was out of control causing injury resulting in death is 14 years in prison.
