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A 3-year-old boy has died after falling out of a window at his family home and being mauled to death by the family's two pit bulls when he landed in the backyard.
The incident occurred at approximately 5:30 p.m. on Thursday in Elizabeth, New Jersey -- about 6 miles south of Newark -- when police say the boy somehow managed to fall out of a window, landed in the backyard of the family home and was subsequently and savagely attacked by the family's two dogs, according to New York City ABC station WABC.
Neighbors say that the mother immediately reacted and went to rescue her son but that it was a horrendous scene as she tried to pull the dogs off of the little boy.
"I saw the mother, she was full of blood in her hands, her shirt," neighbor Maria Rocha told WABC in an interview after the attack. "And I was like, 'what happened?' so I came here because it was full of police and she told me, 'My baby, my baby, I went to the bathroom and my baby fell out the window.'"
https://abcnews.go.com/US/toddler-falls-window-home-mauled-death-familys-pit/story?id=78238482
Bettie
(16,072 posts)"pit bulls are universally harmless sweet doggies".
My mother had a pit. She was great, until she wasn't. She killed another dog and ripped my mother's leg open.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)JI7
(89,240 posts)jimfields33
(15,693 posts)Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Beaverhausen
(24,470 posts)Sounds to me, with only the info posted, the parents are very irresponsible.
JI7
(89,240 posts)and often do it when nobody is around. This boy was 3 years old.
questionseverything
(9,645 posts)For having murderous animals in their yard
moonscape
(4,673 posts)PortTack
(32,705 posts)There are just too many stories like this. Had a similar one in the area I live in. Family dog, usually friendly, boy had neighbors over to play. Pit bull gets riled up, breaks free from his enclosure and kills the first kid he gets ahold of, which was the kid in the family
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Yes I'm gonna blame the goddamn parents. A baby fell out of a fucking window for the love of God. But let's blame the dogs.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)Hekate
(90,556 posts)
. and window-screens are very easy to push out. They are so damn fast.
Oh but those sweet family doggies, the Pitties.