FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WSVN) – A worried dad is speaking up about a dog attack in a Florida park that left his 5-year-old child scarred and distressed.
Florian Becker says his 5-year-old child is “absolutely traumatized” after the Tuesday attack at Hortt Park in Fort Lauderdale. The lady is having a hard time to recover after a dog bite that needed more than 50 stitches and staples to her face, shoulders, back and scalp.
“A lady with a dog walked up… and she invited the kids to come and pet the dog. My daughter went up and pet him, and all of a sudden, the dog turned and bit her in her face,” Becker said.
The painful noises of the attack, consisting of screams and the dog’s barks, were caught by a close-by security video camera.
“My wife was shocked and screamed, tried to pull the dog back by its collar, and the collar broke. The dog attacked again, this time more viciously, and she was grabbing the dog and fighting it back, holding on to it, screaming at the woman to take control of her dog,” Becker said.
Finally, the mom had the ability to release her child and hurry her to the emergency clinic. Her dad says the 5-year-old was lucky due to the fact that a few of the bite injuries are extremely near to her eye, however it does not seem impacted.
Some of the swelling in his child’s face is decreasing, her dad says, though she deals with a long roadway to healing.
“She said… ‘Why are you looking at me?’ My wife said, ‘Because you’re beautiful.’ And she said, ‘No, I look like a monster.’ So, these scars will be there for a long time,” Becker said.
Becker says when cops reached the park, the female and her dog were gone. Officials state the owner and dog have actually considering that been determined, according to local media reports.
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