Articles labeled: pit bulls

A 5-year-old girl from Simi Valley, California has died from injuries sustained after a pit bull attacked her.

Katya Todesco died Friday at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, three days after the dog bit her on her face and neck, said Los Angeles County coroner’s investigator Ed Winter.

Katya’s mother Katia Todesco said she and her daughter were visiting a friend who was taking care of the pit bull Tuesday.

The little girl and the friend’s 13-year-old daughter were playing in the back yard when the 5-year-old bumped into the dog, then was mauled. Her mother heard screams and came outside to find the dog latched on to her daughter.

“It was a horrible attack,” Todesco said Monday. “With my own hands I was pulling the dog’s jaw.”

As much as the pro pit bull crowd claims pit bulls are friendly, family dogs, their reputation far exceeds them. The media doesn’t have a bias, it’s just that pit bulls happen to kill and mame children more than any other dog.

A 4-year-old girl was recovering Saturday after being mauled by a neighbor’s pit bull in the backyard of her Humboldt Park home.

Jaslin Sampre was taken to Children’s Memorial Hospital in critical condition after the Friday night attack in the 3500 block of West Cortland, her family said.

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The pit bull that mauled her seemed “like a nice dog,” Rodriguez said. “Maybe he doesn’t like kids.”

Hey, never heard this one before — a dog that parents are describing as a “pit bull” attacked a 13-month-old boy in his yard.

Katie and Jake Stockman say it was a parent’s worst nightmare. “My 4 year old yelled “dog!” and I turn around and this pit bull looking thing comes up and just knocks him over. It slams his head on the concrete, looks like he kind of grabs him along the leg area.”

They say the dog appeared in their neighborhood about once every month. But it wasn’t until this week they say the dog attacked.

The mother says she scooped up her son then slammed the door, leaving the dog outside.

Why is it, you never hear of a gang of pugs killing children? Well, they don’t have the capability to. Pit Bulls are a disgrace to our society and harmful to children. Children need to come first. They’re far more important than dogs who are bred to look for a thrill kill.

ABILENE — A 7-year-old boy died after he was apparently attacked by pit bulls while playing outside near his rural home, authorities said.

A driver saw Tanner Joshua Monk of Breckenridge lying next to a road near Hubbard Lake on Sunday with two pit bulls nearby and stopped to check on the child, Stephens County Sheriff Jim Reeves said. When she left her car, the dogs became aggressive and she called 911, he said.

The dogs also became aggressive toward the two deputies who arrived, and they shot and killed them. The deputies found that Tanner was dead, Reeves said in today’s edition of the Abilene Reporter-News.