Tuesday, January 10, 2023

7-YEAR-OLD GIRL KILLED BY DOG, OWNER CHARGED WITH NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE

By Bob Walsh

 

López was arrested and charged with manslaughter for failing to confine or restrain the dog that attacked the seven-year-old girl.

Sadie (above), of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was playing in a relative's yard when the stray dog ​​attacked her.  She was taken to the hospital, where she died from her injuries.                 7-year-old Sadie Davila was mailed to death by a pit bull in East Baton Rouge

 

The East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office responded to reports of a dog attack on Friday night.  When they got there they found a badly injured 7-year old girl.  The girl had been playing at the home of a neighbor when the dog, from another neighbor's house, attacked her.  The owner of the house where the attack occurred, a relative of the victim, tried to beat the pit bull mix off of the girl with a cane but was unsuccessful.  The girl died at the hospital from skull damage incurred in the dog attack.

The dog believed involved in the attack was grabbed by animal control.  It had blood on it's face and mouth.

The dogs owner, Erick Lopez, 20, was interviewed by the cops.  He lived about 150 yards from the scene of the attack.  There was no fence on the property where the dog lived.  Lopez acknowledged that the dog often ran loose in the neighborhood.  Lopez has been arrested and charged with negligent homicide.

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