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A father and his adult son from the Abitibi region have been ordered to pay more than $223,000 to a young woman who was attacked by their three pit bulls in May 2011.

Mégan Dubé was 12 at the time of the attack outside her family’s home in La Sarre, about 700 kilometres northwest of Montreal.

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One bite was so severe she could see the bone of her knee.

In a civil suit, Quebec Superior Court Judge Robert Dufresne determined Guy Morneau and his son Sébastien, 34, were to blame for Dubé’s nightmare.

In testimony, Morneau and his son said the dogs were Sébastien’s responsibility alone. In 2014, he pleaded guilty to four counts of criminal negligence causing injury. (Three neighbours were bitten when they came to her aid.)

Sébastien Morneau recently completed a 30-month prison term as part of a sentence that was combined with another after he pleaded guilty to operating two marijuana grow-operations.