Photo: Spartanburg County Detention Center
The woman, who has not been publicly identified, was bending over to fix the flowers on another grave in the cemetery belonging to her deceased husband when the dogs attacked her, she told WYFF.
“I knew right away they were not friendly dogs,” she told WYFF. “They were like a wolf-pack.”
The woman, who was visiting South Carolina from Virginia, suffered puncture wounds that looked like “bullet holes,” she told WYFF.
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The dogs — who are mixed-breeds, according to authorities — bit both sides of her hips but mostly bit her left leg below her knee, she told WYFF.
Her ordeal ended when hertwo nephews came to her rescue, local station WSPA reports.
Officials who responded to a report of a canine attack at the cemetery went to Anderson’s home across the street from the cemetery and found the 12 other dogs, Spartanburg County Director of Environmental Enforcement Jamie Nelson confirms to PEOPLE.
The five dogs who were allegedly involved in the attack have been impounded. They arebeing held in rabies quarantineat the Spartanburg County Humane Society, the incident report said.
On Tuesday, Spartanburg County Environmental Officers secured 5 arrest warrants against Anderson, 44, for allegedly being the owner of a dangerous animal which attacks and injures a human being, the incident report said.
She was also charged with violations of a local animal control ordinance.
Anderson was taken into police custody Monday on an alleged outstanding warrant for unrelated charges, online jail records show.
She was released Tuesday morning.
It is unclear whether Anderson has entered a plea to any of the charges against her or retained an attorney who can speak on her behalf.
source: people.com
