Archive for mauled
Thursday, March 7th, 2013
A 14-month old Walworth, Wisc. boy is dead on Thursday after he was attacked by a pair of pit bull dogs at his babysitter’s apartment. The boy’s babysitter, Susan Iwicki, 30, called police to report that she and the youngster, Dax, were being attacked by two pit bulls belonging to Iwicki. The attack occurred around ... read more »
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Monday, November 5th, 2012
A 2-year-old boy died Sunday morning after he fell into a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania zoo exhibit containing 11 wild African dogs. Police believe the mother was holding the youngster up on a railing above the exhibit. The boy then fell approximately 11 feet inside the exhibit and was subsequently mauled by the dogs. According to the Houston ... read more »
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Thursday, August 30th, 2012
A 59-year-old deaf woman was brutally mauled by a pit bull on Saturday while walking down the street on her way to a friend’s house. Shirley Sturgeon, who lives at the adult care home Breckinridge Manor due to her special needs, was unable to hear the dog approaching her or even scream for help during ... read more »
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Thursday, May 17th, 2012
Jeremiah Eskew-Shahan’s first birthday ended in a horrific tragedy when the family’s 120-pound mastiff-Rhodesian ridgeback mix, Onion, mauled the baby and killed him. Around 10 p.m. on Friday, just before the baby was about to be put to bed, he crawled over to pet the 6-year-old dog that he had happily played with all day while ... read more »
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Friday, August 12th, 2011
A pregnant woman was mauled to death by her pet pit bull in her home in Pacifica, California. Police Captain Dave Bertini reports that the body of Darla Napora, 32, was found by her husband around noon with a pit bull, one of the family dogs, standing over her. The husband was able to get the pit bull outside before ... read more »
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
WARREN, Mich. (AP) — A 4-month-old baby was fatally mauled by a Rottweiler while her mother had stepped away to warm her bottle, according to police and broadcast reports. Stepped away to make a bottle?? Are the police buyin’ that bull? Like she wouldn’t hear a baby crying while a big dog was tearing its ... read more »
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