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Pit Bulls Maul 2-Year-Old Boy - Mom leaves him home alone with dogs, takes BF to work
thebakersfieldchannel ^
Posted on 09/14/2003 11:57:51 AM PDT by chance33_98
Pit Bulls Maul 2-Year-Old Boy
Officials Say Attack Was Vicious
POSTED: 9:50 PM PDT September 12, 2003
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- A 2-year-old boy was nearly killed Friday after being mauled by two pit bulls.
Neighbors found 2-year-old Issac Zavaleta inside this home alone, being attacked by the dogs early Friday morning.
They say they're shocked not only that it happened, but that the mother, identified as Vanessa Cruz, left the baby there with the dogs while she reportedly took her boyfriend to work.
At about 7 a.m., a neighbor went to the house to find the two dogs -- named Cane and Sane -- chewing on the boy's head.
The boy underwent surgery at Kern Medical Center earlier Friday before being transferred to Valley Children's Hospital in Madera.
The man who discovered the attack took the boy and gave him to another neighbor, Rosalia Martinez. Blood spots mark the spot where she held him until paramedics arrived.
"I didn't see any injuries in his body," Martinez said. "(But his) scalp (was) pulled back."
Neighbors say the mother arrived after the ambulance and was questioned by sheriff's detectives. Neighbors, many of whom know little Issac, are devastated.
"I was crying," said neighbor Sophia Padilla. "I have a 2-year-old."
The pit bulls are now at animal control. They will be tested for rabies, then destroyed. Animal control officials say they rarely see a dog attack this vicious.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: California
KEYWORDS: dogofpeace; maul; peta; pitbull; pitbullapalooza; pitbulls; theusualidiots; usualidiots
To: chance33_98
heartbreaking...
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posted on
09/14/2003 11:59:27 AM PDT
by
MaryFromMichigan
( If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?)
To: chance33_98
![](http://www.husky-wildlife.de/tierschutz/fotos/pitbull.jpg)
"The Dog of Peace"
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posted on
09/14/2003 11:59:51 AM PDT
by
ambrose
(Member of the McClintock Militia)
To: chance33_98
Seems like one such incident per day now.
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posted on
09/14/2003 12:00:55 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: chance33_98
Dear God...
To: Mr. Mojo
And this is one that was totally avoidable.
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posted on
09/14/2003 12:01:37 PM PDT
by
SouthernFreebird
(constipated people don't give a crap.)
To: chance33_98
Oh man. This is not the same as the perents stepping outside to smoke a cogarette. She LEFT her 2 year old sone home ALONE. With a pit bull, no less.
How many of us would have left a toddler home alone to begin with?? With or without a pit bull??
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posted on
09/14/2003 12:05:27 PM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
To: chance33_98
And of course, the pit bulls will pay for what is most likely their conditioning by the boyfriend while he gets off scot-free.
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posted on
09/14/2003 12:08:18 PM PDT
by
Conservative til I die
(They say anti-Catholicism is the thinking man's anti-Semitism; that's an insult to thinking men)
To: cake_crumb
Exactly, how hard would it have been for her to put the child in the car? I would not leave any kid under the age of 12 home alone. The idiocy of some parents boggles the mind. I am not sure who is worse, those that leave their kids at home...or those that "forget" they left them in the car!!!!
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posted on
09/14/2003 12:09:44 PM PDT
by
Feiny
(We Will Never Forget!)
To: chance33_98
Canine Conservatives.
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posted on
09/14/2003 12:14:01 PM PDT
by
Consort
To: ambrose
Also the dog of drug dealers --- I wonder if the boyfriend was one?
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posted on
09/14/2003 12:16:37 PM PDT
by
FITZ
To: Mr. Mojo
![](http://pitbull.ourfamily.com/images/image1.gif)
"Pitbulls are no more dangerous than a Golden Retriever!"
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posted on
09/14/2003 12:17:40 PM PDT
by
ambrose
(Member of the McClintock Militia)
To: feinswinesuksass
Exactly, how hard would it have been for her to put the child in the car? Parents this neglectful should be spayed and neutered. The mother in this article has absolutely no business having more kids.
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posted on
09/14/2003 12:18:46 PM PDT
by
FITZ
To: feinswinesuksass
Exactly, how hard would it have been for her to put the child in the car?
Well It seems to me that the kid would of been better off in the front seat of the car with his mom, then home serving as a snack...
I think that all the do-gooders have a little responsibility here -- they make it a chore to take a quick trip. Think about the kids left to bake strapped in the back of the car. Tell me someone is going to forget a kid in the front seat. (I am not talking about the brain dead scum who deliberately leave their kids in the car.)
To: feinswinesuksass
I don't get it either. I cannot conveive of anyone who didn't think enough of their child's wellbeing that they couldn't take the few minutes necessary to put him in his car seat. I never left mine alone when they were younger than 12 either. My mother never left any of US home alone until we were at least 12. That's partly what neighbors and relatives are for.
Even if the poor baby hadn't been mauled to death by the family dog, we still might be here discussing this hideous lack of caring on the mother's part for some OTHER reason, like a burglar, house fire or him getting out into the street and being hit by a car.
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posted on
09/14/2003 12:21:38 PM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
To: feinswinesuksass
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posted on
09/14/2003 12:22:23 PM PDT
by
AnnaZ
(::: VOTE McCLINTOCK! ::: (Interns in Sacramento thank you in advance.) :::)
To: ambrose
Gee, did you doctor that photo yourself? How many of those pictures do you have on your hard drive? Do they have some special meaning for you? We at FR might use you as an example of someone who is "extreme."
To: Clara Lou
He really loves his Golden Retriever,
can't you tell?
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posted on
09/14/2003 1:33:36 PM PDT
by
dtel
(Texas Longhorn cattle for sale at all times. We don't rent pigs)
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