Yeah. Too much can go wrong these days to let little kids be out on their own... And, even if the dad still decided to let him walk over to play with a friend, at minimum should have checked to make sure there was someone there.
This easily could have turned into a missing child story instead of a dog attack.
I let my 6 year old grandson shoot firearms under my supervision. I don’t allow him to walk the neighborhood, even a few houses away without me or his parents with him.
Yes it could have.
I am not even sure an adult present would have been able to stop the attack, but if I was there I would damn sure have tried.
Thank God the boy is still alive.