And then the kicker.....
An autopsy is planned for later this week to determine the exact cause of the child’s death.
Hmmmm, let me guess.......Cause of death was the pit bull's bites, right?
What are we paying these people for for G*ds sake?
Morons!!!!!
Actually, I’m sure by law they must do an autopsy since the death occurred without anyone around. Suppose a parent killed their child and then put them outside with the dog to divert blame? It may seem obvious what happened (and I am not suggesting what we think happened isn’t what happened) but they have to make sure.
There are a few things here that would require an autopsy, most importantly that medical examiners are supposed to investigate any death that is sudden, unexpected, suicide, homicide, or basically not of old age or in emergency surgery - so that includes pretty much 100% of infant and child deaths, and that is in fact what we pay ‘these people’ for. What if, God forbid, someone was abusing the child and put the body in the backyard, hoping the dog would bite it and get the blame? What if the child had passed out in the backyard, and the pit was trying to ‘wake up’ the child, cause even that could easily be fatal?
Then, there’s the situation itself: the child ‘somehow’ gets into the backyard, the mother ‘somehow’ sleeps through the entire thing, police say it was obvious the child had been dead for “a while” when they arrived (which would most likely mean rigor mortis or livor mortis, which usually take 1-2 hours to show up). And then, to top it all off, neighbors or other adults witnessed the attack, but did nothing? Not even banging on the parents’ trailer and yelling that the dog in their backyard was killing a child? Not even calling 911 or animal control, but letting the mother do it well after the child was dead? If all of that doesn’t warrant further investigation, I don’t know what does...