too bad it wasn’t the Mom who had the gun , the little girl might not have been in as bad shape………
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(KY) Neighbor uses gun to save child from vicious pit bull04-28-04

> Courier-Journal.com
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> Apr 28, 3:51 PM EDT
> Girl critical after being attacked by dog
> By THOMAS S. WATSON
> Associated Press Writer
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> LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A 4-year-old girl was in critical condition
> Wednesday at Kosair Children’s Hospital after being attacked by a dog in
> her back yard.
>
> Emily Paige Stinnett of Hodgenville was playing with her 3-year-old
> stepsister Monday night on a swing set near where the family’s 80-pound
> pit bull dog was chained. The dog was able to pull the tie-down out of
> wet dirt, said LaRue County Sheriff Bobby Shoffner.
>
> There was no indication of what may have prompted the attack, Shoffner
> said.
>
> The child’s mother, Alicia Stinnett, was home, but unaware of the attack
> until she went to the yard to check on the girls, the sheriff said.
> After unsuccessfully trying to get the dog to release her daughter’s
> head, Alicia Stinnett went down the road to a friend’s house, who
> returned with her and got the dog off the child, Shoffner said.
>
> The friend shot the dog several times and it went back to its dog house,
> Shoffner said.
> When Deputy Sheriff Russell McCoy arrived, he fatally shot the animal,
> Shoffner said.
>
> Emily was airlifted to the Louisville hospital some 50 miles north for
> emergency surgery.
> Two hours later, the sheriff received a call from surgeons who said they
> needed the girl’s scalp to reattach it, or she could die, Shoffner said.
>
> “We’d already looked around the area of the attack and there was no
> evidence of her scalp anywhere to be found, so the only other place it
> could have been was in the dog’s stomach,” Shoffner said.
>
> Officials cut the dog open, packed the scalp in ice and rushed it to the
> hospital, Shoffner said.
>
> The hospital would not release any further information about Emily on
> Wednesday, other than her condition.
>
> Shoffner said he was still investigating the attack, but no charges had
> been filed Wednesday.