A mum has appeared in court after her nine-year-old son was killed in a dog attack. Frankie Macritchie, from Plymouth, died after he was attacked in a caravan at Tencreek Holiday Park in Looe, Cornwall, in April last year.
Police were called to the site just before 5am and the schoolboy was pronounced dead at the scene. Frankie's mother, Tawney Willis, 31, appeared at Bodmin Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
She is charged with neglecting Frankie in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering or injury to health, contrary to the Children and Young Persons Act 1933.
She appeared alongside 29-year-old Sadie Totterdell who is charged with being the owner of an American bulldog/Staffordshire cross that was dangerously out of control
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