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ansible

(1,718 posts)
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 08:24 PM Jul 2021

Toddler falls from window of home, mauled to death by family's 2 pit bulls when he lands

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

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Bettie

(16,052 posts)
2. Cue people who say
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 08:36 PM
Jul 2021

"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.

Beaverhausen

(24,469 posts)
5. Um... is no one asking how a toddler falls out of a window?
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 09:43 PM
Jul 2021

Sounds to me, with only the info posted, the parents are very irresponsible.

JI7

(89,233 posts)
9. They climb everywhere. They can reach places one may not expect
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 10:45 PM
Jul 2021

and often do it when nobody is around. This boy was 3 years old.

questionseverything

(9,644 posts)
10. The parents are irresponsible for letting a child fall out a window and
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 10:51 PM
Jul 2021

For having murderous animals in their yard

PortTack

(32,682 posts)
8. No one loves dogs more than me! Pit bulls should just be allowed to "retire" as a breed
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 10:44 PM
Jul 2021

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

(10,155 posts)
12. Here we go again
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 11:04 PM
Jul 2021

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.

Hekate

(90,496 posts)
14. Mom went to the bathroom. I assume she is allowed to do that. Toddlers climb everywhere...
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 11:49 PM
Jul 2021

…. and window-screens are very easy to push out. They are so damn fast.

Oh but those sweet family doggies, the Pitties.



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