New Jersey police said that a toddler was lethally mauled by a dog while in the care of a teenager at a Newark residence Tuesday evening.
‘The distraught family asked for privacy.’
Police said the girl had wandered away from the babysitter and encountered one of their four dogs, a pit bull, at the home on Second Ave.
The child was transported to University Hospital after the mauling with critical injuries. She was later declared dead at about 7 p.m. according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.
The four dogs were removed from the home, and police are trying to determine whether only one dog attacked the child or whether any of the other dogs were involved. They were placed into quarantine with Newark Animal
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