Quebec man convicted in pit-bull mauling gets four-year prison sentence

LONGUEUIL — A Quebec man whose pit bull-type dog mauled a young girl in 2015 was sentenced Friday to four years in jail, with the judge calling his behaviour “gross and extreme negligence.”
Quebec court Judge Pierre Belisle handed down the sentence for Karim Jean Gilles a month after he convicted him of criminal negligence causing bodily harm.
The attack left the seven-year-old girl with severe damage to her face and cranium.
In reading his sentence, Belisle said there wer