Chris Villani Monday, July 24, 2017



The “Puppy Doe” animal abuse trial scheduled to start tomorrow in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham has been postponed until Aug. 7 as the prosecuting attorney deals with a medial emergency, according to a spokesman for Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey.

“The Assistant District Attorney who was prepared to begin jury selection and trial Tuesday in the animal cruelty matter of Commonwealth v. Czerkawski is undergoing emergency surgery today,” spokesman David Traub said in a statement. “She was experiencing a loss of vision in one eye and, after being diagnosed with a detached retina at the emergency room, is now undergoing surgery to save her sight.”

Radoslaw Czerkawski, a Polish immigrant in the country illegally and already behind bars for stealing $130,000 from an elderly woman with dementia he was caring for at the time, faces 12 counts of animal abuse for the alleged ruthless torture of a puppy left for dead on a Quincy playground nearly four years ago.

Judge Thomas Connors today allowed the Commonwealth’s emergency motion to postpone and ordered the matter to return to Norfolk Superior Court at 2 p.m. on Aug. 7 for Trial Assignment. ​

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