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9-Year Old Badly Hurt In Pit Bull Attack (ripped his cheek off)
http://www.todaystmj4.com (Wisconsin) ^ | 4-14

Posted on 04/14/2010 5:14:21 PM PDT by Chet 99

9-Year Old Badly Hurt In Pit Bull Attack By Michael George SHEBOYGAN- 9-year old A.J. Sterling is recovering at home after being attacked by a pit bull. His injuries are severe, and his parents are angry with the dog’s owners.

Witness Connor Lieser tells TODAY’S TMJ4 the attack appeared to be unprovoked, as the boy was reaching down to pet the dog.

Maria Ramirez and Afero Sterling, parents of A.J., just watched him go through plastic surgery. He was bitten on the face by the pit bull just one block from his home in Sheboygan.

“I wouldn’t want any child to go through that, let alone any person. It’s just really hard,” said Ramirez.

Police say the dog was being walked by a 12-year old girl on the sidewalk. A.J.’s parents say their son told them he was talking to the girl when the dog started growling. A.J. says he was backing away.

“That’s when the dog lunged at him. He said it bit him in the face, drug him across the ground, and that’s when it ripped his cheek off,” said Afero Sterling.

The gruesome injury described by Afero is confirmed by witness and police accounts.

Police will be checking whether the dog has a history of violence or has rabies. For now, the dog is on quarantine at the owner’s home. A.J.’s parents say they were told the dog was originally rescued from an abusive or neglectful background. They say the dog’s current owners are to blame for the attack.

“That dog needs to be put to sleep. To have a 12-year old girl walk around a pit bull with a history of abuse and neglect and violence, it’s just absurd to me,” said Maria Ramirez.

A.J. is now out of the hospital and recovering at home, but he will likely need more plastic surgery in 6 months. Police are still investigating to determine whether any charges will be filed against the owner or whether the dog will be surrendered or put down.


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: chet99; hippo; pitbull
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1 posted on 04/14/2010 5:14:22 PM PDT by Chet 99
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To: Chet 99
Police will be checking whether the dog has a history of violence or has rabies. For now, the dog is on quarantine at the owner’s home.

Police are still investigating to determine whether any charges will be filed against the owner

Did anything happen here at all?

2 posted on 04/14/2010 5:23:47 PM PDT by Hillbillary (I know how to deal with Communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Chet 99; familyop

TANKS a bunch for your threads,Chet,,,

I guess the “hippo” crowd will be here soon to make fun

of this mauling,,,

Maybe they will pay this kid’s bill to have his face put

back together...


3 posted on 04/14/2010 5:35:19 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68
I was just thinking I have never heard any of that crowd say anything even remotely humane about the victims, adults, children or the elderly....If any one voiced sorrow for the victims, I don't remember it...

The hit is always on chet for posting no compassion for the victim...

4 posted on 04/14/2010 5:43:03 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: Chet 99

The boy gave the pitbull some lip and the pitbull took a cheek!


5 posted on 04/14/2010 5:47:27 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
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To: Chet 99; Jack Hydrazine

"Pit bull execution ends 6-year fight"


6 posted on 04/14/2010 6:06:10 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Chet 99

A pit bull killed a newborn baby here in Central Florida today.


7 posted on 04/14/2010 6:11:33 PM PDT by MIlle
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To: MIlle; Chet 99
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5inOmfSff8tRfTSwUpKBr7QwCIFGAD9F31B100

Todays Florida dog induced death.

8 posted on 04/14/2010 6:15:24 PM PDT by Slicksadick (Go out on a limb........Its where the fruit is.)
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To: Chet 99

Heaven help anybody or anything that harms my child like that.


9 posted on 04/14/2010 6:16:57 PM PDT by oldvike (I'm too drunk to taste THIS chicken)
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To: JoeProBono

So it is really wiener dogs that doing all of the mauling and killing of human beings. Gotcha!


10 posted on 04/14/2010 6:19:20 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
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To: goat granny
Hey,Granny,,,Spot On Post!!!,,,

Not a one I've seen seem to care about these maulings or

the death of one of these victims at all,,,

It's all just a joke to them,,,
~~~
My ammonia bill now cost around $10.00 a week,,,

That's without the bleach bill,,,

Think Ypres!!!,,,

Sure keeps the basturds from charging the fence...;0)

11 posted on 04/14/2010 6:27:11 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: Slicksadick; Chet 99

What’s wrong with this picture

7-day-old Florida infant dies after pit bull bite

(AP) – 6 hours ago

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. — Police say a pit bull terrier fatally mauled a 7-day-old Florida baby as the child apparently lay next to his sleeping teenage mother.

The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office in New Port Richey says the seven-day-old the boy was attacked Wednesday and died shortly after.

Neighbors told the St. Petersburg Times the 16-year-old mother didn’t discover her son was dead until a neighbor knocked on the mother’s door and woke her around noon. They said mom answered the door, then turned around and saw what had happened to her newborn son.

Neighbors said the dog belongs to the baby’s father. It was taken away by county animal services.


12 posted on 04/14/2010 6:31:38 PM PDT by Minnehaha ("God is Alive - Magic is Afoot" Buffy Sainte Marie)
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To: Minnehaha

What’s wrong with this picture
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A baby is Dead!,,,

We don’t know what pain meds were given to this girl...


13 posted on 04/14/2010 6:38:56 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: Jack Hydrazine; shibumi; Salamander

14 posted on 04/14/2010 6:40:21 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68
"We don’t know what pain meds were given to this girl"


15 posted on 04/14/2010 6:44:00 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: goat granny; Chet 99; familyop

Well now that didn’t take very long now did it?...


16 posted on 04/14/2010 6:44:34 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: goat granny

They come on here and defend their own dogs. They never express any feelings about the victims or anger at the dog owners. I called one of them on that yesterday. All he could do was call me a liberal dog hater. He came off like a real simple minded fool.


17 posted on 04/14/2010 6:46:46 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

What’s wrong with this picture

7-day-old Florida infant dies after pit bull bite


18 posted on 04/14/2010 6:48:29 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono; goat granny; Chet 99; familyop; All

I guess You know much more about Dope than I do,,,

I guess that’s what that is,,,

Enjoy your short life...


19 posted on 04/14/2010 6:49:52 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: JoeProBono

I don’t understand what the hippoes are for.


20 posted on 04/14/2010 6:55:27 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
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