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Updated: 6:39 pm EDT August 6, 2010 CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. -- An 8-month-old girl was in critical condition after being attacked by the family’s pit bull, Clayton County police said. The toddler was taken to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, where she was rushed into surgery. An officer at the scene told Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Jones that the area in the home where the girl was attacked looked like a crime scene. Officers said the baby's mother was in the process of feeding the child and the dog at the same time. The baby somehow got...

Published: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 MIDDLETOWN — The father of an 11-year-old girl mauled by a pit bull in mid-May is set to appear in civil court Monday at New London Superior Courthouse. Thomas Sheehan, of 331 Timber Ridge Road, Middletown, was allegedly hosting a family party when his daughter was viciously attacked by an unleashed pit bull. The dog belongs to the son of Sheehan’s girlfriend, the 11-year-old’s mother, Merryl Simon Macek, said. According to Macek, her daughter suffered severe injuries from the attack including five deep lacerations and two puncture wounds under the jaw. Three-fourths of the girl’s...

<p>CHARLOTTESVILLE (AP) — A judge sentenced a husband and wife to eight years in jail Monday for supplying alcohol to teenagers at a birthday party for their son.</p> <p>Prosecutors had sought a sentence of 90 days for Elisa Kenty Robinson and George Fisher Robinson of Earlysville. They pleaded guilty to 16 misdemeanor counts of contributing to the delinquency of minors.</p>