State v. Nowlin

Seventeen-year-old Kayla Diane Nowlin was at her home babysitting a neighbor’s two-year old daughter on March 9, 2009. She had been caring for the child for approximately two weeks while the child’s mother worked. Nowlin was under instruction by the mother not to keep the child in Nowlin’s home because she owned a pit bull. The dog had bitten another neighborhood child in October 2008, although the two-year-old in Nowlin’s care had been around the dog several times without incident. At some point on March 9, Nowlin and the child left Nowlin’s home. Upon returning, Nowlin opened the front gate…