Darwin award for sure. Of course, if this had been a Pit Bull we all know how the headline would have read...
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Sheriff: dog attacks infant twice in 2 days
A 9-month-old infant is in intensive care at a Seattle hospital after the Skagit County sheriff's office says she was attacked twice in two days by her grandmother's dog. Chief Criminal Deputy Will Reichardt says his office is recommending an assault charge be filed against the grandmother. Prosecutor Rich Weyrich tells the Skagit Valley Herald he does not yet know if any charges will be filed.
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. —
A 9-month-old infant is in intensive care at a Seattle hospital after the Skagit County sheriff's office says she was attacked twice in two days by her grandmother's dog. Chief Criminal Deputy Will Reichardt says his office is recommending an assault charge be filed against the grandmother. Prosecutor Rich Weyrich tells the Skagit Valley Herald he does not yet know if any charges will be filed.
The sheriff's office says the infant had recently moved into the grandmother's home in eastern Skagit County with her 21-year-old mother and 18-year-old father. Reichardt says the parents were not home when the attacks occurred.
The deputy says in the first incident, the Rhodesian Ridgeback/Lab mix named Hercules inflicted an injury that required stitches to reattach part of the infant's ear.
In the second attack, on Aug. 2, deputies were told the child was crawling on the floor when the dog bit her several times on the head. She suffered a depressed skull fracture and puncture wounds.
The dog is now in quarantine.