[winniecnm]

He may not be legally responsible according to the laws in his town, but I could not sleep at night knowing that I had a hand in what happened.

If I were the lawyer for those parents, I would see just how other people in a court of law viewed the dog owner's level of responsibility. The girl could have wandered into traffic and been killed, or gotten killed in some other way. Or she could have LIVED! Kids her age do go missing and return alive. But she didn't, she was killed by the LAST thing that should have done the deed- a domestic dog.