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A South Shore man serving a five-year prison term because his pit bull-type dog attacked and disfigured a 7-year-old girl in a park in Brossard has been turned down for parole because he prefers to serve his time in almost complete isolation.

On Sept. 20, 2015, Karim Jean-Gilles and his mother brought his two dogs to Marquise Park in Brossard. The dogs were not on leashes and when Magdalena Biron, the 7-year-old girl’s mother, objected the dogs began to growl. Biron’s two young girls ran from the dogs. Jean-Gilles’s pit bull-type canine, named Ashes, caught up to 7-year-old Vanessa and attacked her. She suffered several lacerations and multiple fractures to her face as well as a fracture at the base of her skull and right hand. Her jaw was also fractured. Nerves and muscles in her face were torn, leaving parts of her face permanently paralyzed.

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Last year, Jean-Gilles was convicted of criminal negligence causing bodily harm and was sentenced, on March 23, 2018, to a four-year prison term that was combined with a sentence he received for having threatened a bailiff who tried to serve him with a summons at his home. Overall he is currently serving a 69-month prison term.