DNA Taken From Pitbull That Raped 2-Year-Old (Police Want Help With Investigation)

WFMY2 ^ | 7/16/07

[Libloather]

DNA Taken From Pitbull That Raped 2-Year-Old

Police say DNA has been taken from the pitbull that attacked a toddler by allegedly sodomizing it last weekend. It was a disturbing and violent attack. The two year old child is in Women and Children's Hospital. Neighbors heard a mother screaming that her child was being raped. Now people are calling to adopt the pitbull.

Lockport, NY -- Police say DNA has been taken from the pitbull that attacked a toddler by allegedly sodomizing it last weekend. It was a disturbing and violent attack. The two year old child is in Women and Children's Hospital. Neighbors heard a mother screaming that her child was being raped.

Lockport police say taking DNA from the dog is part of the investigation.

Lockport Police received a 911 call from a frantic City of Lockport mother last Sunday afternoon.

The mother told Lockport Police that she left her two year old unattended for a short time and after hearing the baby scream, she ran to see what was wrong.

When she got in the room, she told Lockport Police the dog, named "Bear" had sodomized the toddler. The mother screamed, scaring the dog out of the house, but the dog was still attached to the baby.

One neighbor told 2 On Your Side, she heard the mother screaming "the dog is raping my baby." Neighbors ran to help, but only one man was able to get the dog and child apart.

Anastacio Castillo says "I tried to get the dog away from the baby, the dog was already inside the baby." When the baby was finally free, he was visibly sick. Castillo says the boy was vomiting and bleeding.

The baby was rushed to Women and Children's Hospital where the toddler underwent reconstructive surgery.

The dog is being held at the Niagara County SPCA for evalution. An animal behavior specialist is scheduled to evaluate the pitbull on Friday.

Since the attack, over 20 people have called the SPCA asking to adopt the pitbull. Hear those calls by clicking Video.

The Niagara County District Attorney's office is assisting Lockport Police with the investigation.

Miranda Workman, behavior specialist at Purrfect Paws in Amherst says, "Most likely this is not a learned behavior. Dogs in tact, not spayed or neutered have a higher hormonal drive."

She urges parents to never, ever leave their children alone with a dog.

[Bon mots]

The mother is an idiot. How could anyone leave a baby alone with a pitbull where this could even happen. Clueless imbecile.

[utahagen]

Exactly what I was thinking. I’m no fan of pit bulls, and I think you’d be nuts to leave a toddler alone with a dog; but I’ve never HEARD of an animal raping a human.

[tupac]

You forgot the sarcasm tag. Or did you really mean to say that pitbulls are “known for their docility”? If so, ya gotta be kiddin me.

[Grizzled Bear]

He can’t elaborate on it; the best he can do is ignore he ever typed it; the worst, lash out at those who call bs on that asinine statement of his.

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He doesn’t get much FReep mail. He was just feeling lonely and wanted someone to talk to him.

I don’t think he has any friends.

;-)

[camas]

read once that a private eye once had a case of a guy that did not trust his wife. turns out the wife was getting it on with a german Shepperd

[Elsie]

Now people are calling to adopt the pitbull.

Very ugly women, no doubt!

[brytlea]

It really does. I find it incredibly difficult to believe.
susie

[mutley]

Don't just euthanize the pit, hang him. But pretend he is up for adoption. When prospective adoptees show up, hang them, also.

Great idea. Why don't we bury it up to it's head and stone it. Let the kids join in too. Much more participatory for the crowd. And if we don't start doing it soon to people, who by the way, can actually commit rape, our prisons will be overflowing. In fact let's just let angry little people like you go blow the brains out of of dogs and people, right in the public square. Advanced cultures do this, and I just don't understand why we don't go the same way. (sarcasm)

[Elsie]

I’ve heard of a Chihuahua that was charged with raping a Great Dane.

Seems a St. Bernard put him up to it.

[Elsie]

Yup - my reaction, too!

[SergeiRachmaninov]

When prospective adoptees show up, hang them, also.

Ooops...you misspoke, your moron, Sergei.

I should have said the prospective adoptERS should the hanged when they show up. (In my scenario, the faux adoptee candidate has already dropped through the horizontal doggie door.)

[Wolfie]

I'm with you two. No doubt the child was sexually assaulted, but I don't think it was the dog.

The mother screamed, scaring the dog out of the house...

That's gotta be a first for a pit bull.

[Elsie]

“The kid WINKED at me, I tell ya!”

[mutley]

Ooops...you misspoke, your moron, Sergei.

First intelligent thing you've said.

[cynwoody]

Great idea. Why don't we bury it up to it's head and stone it.

Were there four male witnesses?

[SergeiRachmaninov]

let's just let angry little people like you go blow the brains out of of dogs and people, right in the public square...yada yada yada

Seems like I touched a wuttle, bitty nerve there, mutley. LOL

[mutley]

Were there four male witnesses?

Yes, I'll hire...I mean...find them myself.

[SergeiRachmaninov]

First intelligent thing you've said.

Now that's a little rude!

Can't we just be friends? I kinda like that stoning thing you said.

[Elsie]

The DNA results are in... The suspect pit bull shares DNA with Mike Tyson.

And...

...used to be a guard animal in Dulce, NM

[brytlea]

Back when I worked for a vet we did occasional artificial inseminations. To put it delicately, a male dog can certainly be trained fairly easily to go thru the motions with a less than natural partner.
So, I’m assuming the dog could have been trained to do something like that. In which case I would still be a little suspect of the mother, or a family member (whose dog was this?)
susie