“the attack appeared to be unprovoked, as the boy was reaching down to pet the dog”
If this were my child, I would not have let him pet a strange dog. Just saying.
Were his parents even there or was he just one of the innumerable kids of too-young-an-age I see always wandering about, unattended?
I’ve seen 3 year olds walking around the streets of the town east of me, with nary an adult in sight.
Incredible.