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[size=12pt]Pitbulls attack, disfigure unattended baby[/size]
A 6-month-old boy's testicles were severed when two large dogs attacked him as he lay strapped into a baby carrier last weekend at a Murrieta apartment, authorities said.
The mother, identified by Murrieta police as Carrie McKinney, 22, of Point Loma, apparently had left the baby in the carrier on the floor in a room at her friend's apartment with the pit bull and pit bull mix, said Sgt. Bob Landwehr. It was not clear how long the baby had been left alone. The mother and friend, identified as Doug Ritchey, the dogs' owner, came to the baby's rescue when they heard him screaming, Landwehr said.
No one has been arrested in connection with the incident Saturday, police said.
Police were called to the apartment complex at 26301 Arboretum Way in the southwest Riverside County community about 10 a.m. after one or both of the dogs tore off the baby's diaper and bit his scrotum, Landwehr said.
The baby was taken to Rancho Springs Medical Center in Murrieta, then transferred to another hospital, but Landwehr said he did not have an update on the child's condition Wednesday.
Police and child protective services were investigating the attack.
Landwehr said the dogs were seized by animal control.
UPDATE
Two dogs are set to be euthanized after attacked a 6-month-old boy at a Murrieta apartment.
Willa Bagwell, director of Animal Friends of the Valleys, which provides animal control services for Murrieta, said it appears both were involved in the attack judging by the blood on the dogs.
Ritchey, who lives at the apartment where the attack occurred, signed a release to allow animal control to euthanize the 5-year-old female pit bull and 8-month-old female pit bull mix, Bagwell said. The dogs will be kept alive at the shelter until Tuesday to make sure they do not have rabies, she said.
Animal control officers had been called out to the complex in recent weeks because someone reported the same two dogs were abandoned in an apartment, Bagwell said. Ritchey showed up while officers were there and said the dogs were his.
At the shelter Wednesday, the dogs were being kept in separate cages and away from the other animals with a "Beware of Dog" sign on a chain.
Bagwell estimated that the pit bull weighs 70 to 80 pounds and pit bull mix weighs about 60 pounds. She said she spoke with McKinney when she and Ritchey visited the Lake Elsinore animal shelter after the attack.
Neither McKinney nor Ritchey could be reached for comment.
This is the first time in more than two decades with the organization that Bagwell has seen an infant with such serious dog bite injuries. Toddlers and older children often are bitten when they approach or provoke dogs, she said. Obviously, an infant in a carrier did nothing to provoke the attack, she said.
Bagwell said she was shocked that someone would leave a defenseless infant unattended around dogs, especially pit bulls.
"It was very negligent," Bagwell said. "We're just all praying for this poor baby. It's such a tragedy. And what's sad is that it was so preventable."
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That is fucking awful, but seriously...who the fuck straps their kid to something in a room alone with two big dogs? WTF?
Originally Posted by bowieluva
