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BARBARA KAY: Woman loses half her face in assault; judge rules it's her fault
by Barbara Kay
The name Marie-Héléne Tokar, resident of the small Laurentian town of St. Hippolyte, Quebec probably means nothing to you. But to those of us who follow stories of pit bull atrocities, the name fairly leaps from the page.
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BARBARA KAY: Woman loses half her face in assault; judge rules it's her fault
The name Marie-Héléne Tokar, resident of the small Laurentian town of St. Hippolyte, Quebec probably means nothing to you. But to those of us who follow stories of pit bull atrocities, the name fairly leaps from the page.
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BARBARA KAY: Woman loses half her face in assault; judge rules it's her fault
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