Well, the anti-pit brigades will show up now to tell us it doesn't matter that the kid was improperly supervised, in the wrong yard and (according to his own parent) almost certainly doing something to the dog that should not be done to any strange dog.
It doesn't matter because the magical power of pit bull genes compelled the kid into the yard, dontcha know.
I'd also like to know where the information that he's a pit mix came from. Given the photo, I suspect there's less to that aspect of this story than the text would indicate.
Of course, it is never the pit bull’s fault that a child ends up in its jaws.