Fred Stamm Helps Homeless Amputee Get Off Streets

Severna Park Patch:

If it wasn't for Smokey, the chance meeting of Chuck Beck and Fred Stamm wouldn't have happened.

Smokey is a golden retriever who travels with Beck, his owner, and waits patiently for him in his pickup truck on errands around town.

Stamm is the formerly homeless amputee whose life turned around thanks to Beck and that chance meeting years ago.

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Comments

[LHoney]

03:10 PM on 09/27/2011

This was in our local newspaper yesterday:

The girl, who was only 8, was extremely nervous about having to go into a courtroom and tell a large group of adults how she was sexually abused by a family member. But her task became much more bearable when a cute yellow Lab named Summer walked into the courtroom with her and sat at her feet in the witness box. In what is believed to be the first time in a Connecticut courtroom that a dog was used to comfort a testifying witness, the girl's account in early july helped convince a Superior Court jury in Hartford to convict the defendant on multiple counts of first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor.

Dogs are awesome.