Girl clung to mum's leg as dog attacked...

Should be ILLEGAL to own Killer Dogs
Governments, Councils MUST ACT.

 

A four-year-old girl was clinging to her mother's leg as she was pulled away and mauled to death by a pit bull mastiff dog which ran into their house.

"Jaclin and the rest of the kids were inside sitting in the lounge room watching TV, the kids were playing," another relative, Daniel Atem, said at the scene on Thursday.

He said the dog then attacked Ms Mayout's five-year-old daughter Nyadeng Goaer and Ms Appok tried to intervene.

"Jaclin went to rescue them, the first one, which is the five-year-old and then her daughter was clutching her mum's legs and the dog turned to Ayen.

"He (the dog) pulled the child from the mum ... after the daughter died, the dog left the child and the neighbour, the owner of the dog came after that and took out the dog."

Ms Appok, a mother of three, was too distressed to talk about the incident on Thursday, but described her daughter as "a very artistic girl, she loved to draw and she talked a lot".

Police remain at the scene of a horrific dog attack that left a four-year-old girl dead and two relatives, including a five-year-old, seriously injured in Melbourne's west last night. The dog, which police said was part pit bull terrier, ran inside a neighbour's house about 8pm in Lahy Street, St Albans, and savaged the girls and a 31-year-old woman.

The child was pronounced dead at the scene despite ambulance officers efforts to revive her. The five-year-old had facial injuries and the woman received severe lacerations to her arms and hands. Both were taken by ambulance to Sunshine Hospital, where they were each in a stable condition today.

Paramedics arrived at the house within seven minutes of an emergency call to find what team manager Brett Parker described as a very chaotic scene. ‘‘A four-year-old girl was in the house and had suffered extensive injuries,’’ Mr Parker said. ‘‘Paramedics tried to resuscitate the girl but, unfortunately, she died at the scene.’’

Police last night said they had spoken to the dog's owner, a 30-year-old man from a nearby house. Brimbank Superintendent Graham Kent said there was the potential for charges to be laid against the owner.
Superintendent Kent said the aftermatch of the attack inside their victims' house was distressing scene.

...potential for charges to be laid against the owner?

 

Potential?

This is manslaughter.

Only last Saturday, police used capsicum spray to subdue a pit bull terrier that had savaged an elderly woman’s Scottish terrier in a Ballarat Street, then turned on two men who intervened.

The last reported fatality involving a dog attack in Victoria was in 2007, when a nine-week-old girl was dragged from her cot and mauled by a pet rottweiler. She died from severe head and neck wounds.

In Victoria, according to a council survey taken about four years ago, there were said to be about 3300 dog attacks reported in one year.

 

Vicious, aggressive people own vicious, aggressive dogs.

 

Governments, Councils MUST ACT.

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