Posted on 04/14/2010 5:14:21 PM PDT by Chet 99
9-Year Old Badly Hurt In Pit Bull Attack By Michael George SHEBOYGAN- 9-year old A.J. Sterling is recovering at home after being attacked by a pit bull. His injuries are severe, and his parents are angry with the dog’s owners.
Witness Connor Lieser tells TODAY’S TMJ4 the attack appeared to be unprovoked, as the boy was reaching down to pet the dog.
Maria Ramirez and Afero Sterling, parents of A.J., just watched him go through plastic surgery. He was bitten on the face by the pit bull just one block from his home in Sheboygan.
“I wouldn’t want any child to go through that, let alone any person. It’s just really hard,” said Ramirez.
Police say the dog was being walked by a 12-year old girl on the sidewalk. A.J.’s parents say their son told them he was talking to the girl when the dog started growling. A.J. says he was backing away.
“That’s when the dog lunged at him. He said it bit him in the face, drug him across the ground, and that’s when it ripped his cheek off,” said Afero Sterling.
The gruesome injury described by Afero is confirmed by witness and police accounts.
Police will be checking whether the dog has a history of violence or has rabies. For now, the dog is on quarantine at the owner’s home. A.J.’s parents say they were told the dog was originally rescued from an abusive or neglectful background. They say the dog’s current owners are to blame for the attack.
“That dog needs to be put to sleep. To have a 12-year old girl walk around a pit bull with a history of abuse and neglect and violence, it’s just absurd to me,” said Maria Ramirez.
A.J. is now out of the hospital and recovering at home, but he will likely need more plastic surgery in 6 months. Police are still investigating to determine whether any charges will be filed against the owner or whether the dog will be surrendered or put down.
They should’ve painted a crosshair on Petey, instead, considering....
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You or I may not want our kids anywhere near a 900 pound predator, but some of those attacks happened when the parents paid money to have their kid sit with a tiger to take a picture. You can’t protect people from foolishness with legistlation; all you can do is keep your own safe.
I can remember well the guys that would put on the “suits”
and “Foo-Foo” the dogs to this day,,,
No way I could have done that!!!,,,But,,,
That was how they bonded with the dogs,,,
I guess you saw this too but there was no way I could
have done that to something I loved...
FYI, because of the things that were done to me when I was young [and my pets when I was older] there are only *2* things on earth that would cause me to do unspeakable things to another human being.
One is catching someone abusing animals, the other is catching someone abusing children.
If I die a violent death, one or other of the above will be somehow involved.
You will not, in ~your~ lifetime, *ever* again meet someone with as much enraged passion *or* compassion for suffering innocents.
Feel free to make a wild guess *why*.
[yeah...it’s -personal-]
For the same reason you can’t have a pet coon, squirrel, eagle or chipmunk....because they’re WILDlife.
If you become a licensed WILDlife keeper, exhibitor or rehabilitator you can have all you want.
Wow. Do they do scarification, too? (har!)
Sorry...that falls into the “if they were big enough” category.
Not going for a meet-and-greet.
Beaucoups, not “boo koo”.
Yes.
Some of the customers are of that “persuasion.”
(There isn’t much that they don’t do.)
...;0)
Do not...I repeat, DO NOT go to the piercings page.
You have been warned.
Sorry..I don’t read Vietnamese.
I only got as far as the ‘girls’ page and Mr. Legs walked by...”Oooooh, what are YOU looking at?”...Now he wants another tattoo. >.<
Makes you wonder about his girlfriend, eh?
Back in the late 60s/early 70s, there was a place on Lincoln Way East in PA that had full grown black bears and tiger in cages.
If you had the filthy lucre to spare, you could ‘ride one’ and get your picture taken.
Oddly enough, my parents always seemed to be short of cash when I asked so we just stopped and looked at them when in the area.
[I now suspect they were just jerking me around about the money flow because they *had* the bucks to buy me one of the cheaper-than-the-Polaroids stuffed bears]...:))
Funny how a forgotten memory can be triggered by something someone else said....
No.
I have successfully suppressed that image and will NOT think about it any further.
Show him the piercing page.
That’ll change his mind.
:-P
No...no, let’s not think about his girlfriend. No.
There’s a place near the highway that advertises tigers and big cats and bears and snakes, the kids always want me to stop there, but I dunno...the whole place looks like it’s been thrown together from old pallets and chicken wire.
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