Child Suffers Dog Bite Injury

March 3, 2009

The Zanesville Times Recorder reports that an eight-year-old girl was mauled by her family dog while she was sleeping.

According to a statement taken by the police, the mother of the Ohio dog bite injury victim heard her daughter crying and the dog barking sometime after midnight. She ran into her daughter’s room and immediately noticed that her daughter had been bitten. They then rushed to the hospital for treatment.

The victim reported that she was sleeping at the time of the Ohio dog bite accident. The dog sleeps at the foot of the child’s bed, and her mother indicated that the child might have kicked the dog in her sleep, startling it, and causing it to bite her.

The Ohio dog bite injury lawyers at Fleschner, Stark, Tanoos & Newlin can help if you were injured in a dog bite accident.

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