I agree that leaving a child with a dog known to bite family members is insane, irrespective of the distance. I had noticed the “gone to Indiana” line, though, and wondered if it were like “gone to South Carolina” from my house - about 30 minutes away in average traffic!
The only time that we ever had a 10 year old at home alone, was by accident when the school had to shut down early once.
(no pit bull either)
I don’t know where in Indiana, so I looked from Paw Paw to a town in Indiana right over the state line. An hour. More if they traveled over the line.
Too far! and especially with a dangerous dog in the home. Maybe they left the older brother with him and he left little brother, but as it turns out, they left him with an untrustworthy babysitter, if that was the case.
Maybe I’m prejudiced. I actually wouldn’t leave my kids and even leave town until the youngest was 13 and then left with a brother forbidden to leave the younger one, EVER. Of course I didn’t have any man eating dogs either.