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Ky. Girl Survives Losing Scalp In Pit Bull Attack, Scalp Found In Dog's Stomach
thelouisvillechannel.com ^ | August 2

Posted on 08/02/2005 11:09:28 AM PDT by Chester A. Arthur

Ky. Girl Survives Losing Scalp In Pit Bull Attack

Child In Stable Condition; Scalp Found In Dog's Stomach

HODGENVILLE, Ky. -- A 4-year-old Kentucky girl is lucky to be alive after a gruesome attack by the family's pit bull.

The attack happened Monday night at the child's home in Hodgenville, in Larue County, Louisville television station WLKY reported.

As Emily Page Stinnett remains in stable condition at Louisville's Kosair Children's Hospital, Larue County Sheriff Bobby Shoffer struggles to remember an attack as gruesome as Monday's.

"It's the worst I've seen in my 17 years of law enforcement," he said.

Shoffer added that when he and his colleagues responded to the Stinnet's home, they saw a blood-spattered doghouse in the backyard, Miller reported. And the pit bull hadn't seemed to calm down since the attack. The deputies then took action.

"When we got at the scene, the child was in the backyard just a few feet from the dog," Shoffer said. "EMS was called, and they responded. The dog apparently was still aggressive and it wouldn't let EMS near the child, so the dog had to be put down."

Stinnett and another girl were swinging on the swingset with the pit bull chained and staked just 7 feet away, WLKY-TV reported.

Shoffer said something provoked the dog, and it snapped, pulling its stake as it lunged at the girl and biting her face just above the eyebrow.

"I guess you would say she was more or less scalped," Shoffer said. "She had some puncture wounds to her stomach."

According to Shoffer, the dog then dragged the little girl around the yard as she screamed for help. Her stepmother ran to Emily's aid, but the dog would not let her near the little girl. According to investigators, the stepmother took off in her car to get a neighbor to help rescue little the girl.

"These dogs are unpredictable," Shoffer said. "The least little thing ... the dog could be happy one minute, and the next minute they go absolutely crazy. Anybody that has young children (needs) to make sure the dog is chained or properly fenced in."

Once the girl was transported to Kosair, doctors there told the sheriff that child's hair and scalp had to be found and delivered or she would die. Shoffer said he had to cut the dog's stomach open to find the scalp, which was then rushed to the hospital, WLKY reported.

Family members told WLKY that the doctors reattached the majority of the scalp, but added that the girl still might face more surgeries.


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1 posted on 08/02/2005 11:09:29 AM PDT by Chester A. Arthur
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To: Chester A. Arthur
Pit bulls are loving, sweet dogs who only attack when they've been mistreated.

BEEP

Pit bulls are loving, sweet dogs who only attack when they've been mistreated.

BEEP

Pit bulls are loving, sweet dogs who only attack when they've been mistreated.

BEEP

Repeat as necessary...

2 posted on 08/02/2005 11:11:39 AM PDT by TheBigB (How'd you lovely ladies like a nice big dose of vitamin *me*?)
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To: Chester A. Arthur
A 4-year-old Kentucky girl is lucky to be alive after a gruesome attack by the family's pit bull.

Owning a pit bull with children in the house is grounds for taking the kids away and putting them in foster care.

Stupid people should not raise kids.

3 posted on 08/02/2005 11:12:34 AM PDT by konaice
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To: Chester A. Arthur

1. How was the dog treated before hand, was it encouraged toward wild behavior.

2 Where was the owner of the dog.

3 Where was the owner of the children?


4 posted on 08/02/2005 11:13:13 AM PDT by kharaku (G3 (http://www.cobolsoundsystem.com/mp3s/unreleased/evewasanape.mp3))
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To: Chester A. Arthur
Darwinism in action.

"Hey lets get an unpredictable dog that is bred to fight and has a lethal bight and put it with our child."

Some people are just too stupid to procreate successfully.
5 posted on 08/02/2005 11:14:07 AM PDT by Mylo ("Those without a sword should sell their cloak and buy one" Jesus of Nazareth)
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To: Chester A. Arthur
The Pit Bull fans on FR will be here to make excuses and claim that they are dogs of peace...blah blah..
I say kill all these freaking animals.
6 posted on 08/02/2005 11:14:22 AM PDT by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava)
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To: kharaku

owner of the children"???? You must be a computer programmner.


7 posted on 08/02/2005 11:14:44 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Chester A. Arthur

Egads! With all the publicity about the weirdness gene of pitbulls, why would anyone have one, especially a person with children?


8 posted on 08/02/2005 11:14:58 AM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: Chester A. Arthur

Some people claim Pit Bulls make great pets, but I dont want them anywhere near me. I have a gun for protection and it doesnt go off by itself. It doesnt eat, doesnt crap in the yard and doesnt require a sitter when I leave home. It also doesnt eat my kids or the neighbors.


9 posted on 08/02/2005 11:16:00 AM PDT by sgtbono2002
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To: plain talk

I am a programmer but I don't think that's the issue. Clearly somebody is in possesion of the children, unless they were homless vagrants. And if they were in chewing range of a pitbull then it's hardly a given they were with their parents.


10 posted on 08/02/2005 11:17:14 AM PDT by kharaku (G3 (http://www.cobolsoundsystem.com/mp3s/unreleased/evewasanape.mp3))
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To: TheBigB

and...

Pit bulls are not naturally violent. They only learn the behavior from bad owners.


11 posted on 08/02/2005 11:18:28 AM PDT by kenth
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To: lilylangtree

12 posted on 08/02/2005 11:20:18 AM PDT by eastsider
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To: Chester A. Arthur
Ugh! That poor little one! My neigbors' boxer attacked my little girl this summer. He took a chunk out of her arm, down to the bone. She also had five deep puncture wounds. It took almost a month for the wounds to quit draining. Thanks to the miracle of modern medicine, she's regained her function, although the scars are pretty bad.

Still, the most frightening thing was knowing we could have lost her.
13 posted on 08/02/2005 11:21:05 AM PDT by keats5
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To: kharaku

"owner" of the children? "possession" of the children? I thought you might be a programmer. You have kind of a cold logical way of saying things.


14 posted on 08/02/2005 11:22:30 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk

Well I'm sorry i didn't feel touchy and feely and use warm terms like parents for the folks who let their kids play 7 feet from the snapping jaws of a pitbull, a poorly tied pitbull at that.


15 posted on 08/02/2005 11:24:19 AM PDT by kharaku (G3 (http://www.cobolsoundsystem.com/mp3s/unreleased/evewasanape.mp3))
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To: TheBigB

Time for a "Dog Of Peace" ping...


16 posted on 08/02/2005 11:25:24 AM PDT by beezdotcom (I'm usually either right or wrong...)
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To: Chester A. Arthur

"Her stepmother ran to Emily's aid, but the dog would not let her near the little girl. According to investigators, the stepmother took off in her car to get a neighbor to help rescue little the girl."

Am I reading this correctly? The stepmother left in a car while the dog is eating the little girl?


17 posted on 08/02/2005 11:26:25 AM PDT by keats5
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To: Chester A. Arthur

''doctors there told the sheriff that child's hair and scalp had to be found and delivered or she would die.''

Is this correct.


18 posted on 08/02/2005 11:26:55 AM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: eastsider

While wrestling in the yard one day with the neighbors, my kids were having a ball. Our boxer didn't realize the kids were playing, and protecting his own, barred his teeth at the neighbor kids. The dog was given to an older couple in the country that afternoon.


19 posted on 08/02/2005 11:27:35 AM PDT by phil1750 (Love like you've never been hurt;Dance like nobody's watching;PRAY like it's your last prayer)
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To: Chester A. Arthur

Bookmark to read defense of hairy alligators later.


20 posted on 08/02/2005 11:27:50 AM PDT by randog (What the....?!)
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