Texarkana Girl Attacked By Pit Bull
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Texarkana police say a 14-month-old girl is in
surgical intensive care after she was attacked by a pit bull
terrier. Officer Bart Veal, spokesman for the police, said police
are investigating the attack.
Authorities said Linda Wiegret suffered multiple bites to the
head and back, as well as lacerations that were almost five inches
long, and a chipped skull. The girl received numerous stitches
after the incident Sunday, and is expected to recover.
The girl`s mother, 23-year-old Tiffany Hawkins, said she left
the child in her mother`s back yard, in the care of a 19-year-old
cousin. But she said the cousin went back inside the house and,
when asked where the baby was, said she forgot the child.
When the mother went outside to get the baby, she found the dog
biting and scratching the baby. She told police she grabbed the
baby and rushed her to the hospital.
