3-year-old boy suffered serious facial injuries when Labrador attacked him in Poole Harbor

A three-year-old boy suffered serious facial injuries when he was brutally beaten by a Labrador while his mother petted the puppy

• The mother requested that the dog be destroyed so that the police could investigate the incident
• The dog jumped on Logan Trim when his mother petted the puppy
  

Một cậu bé ba tuổi có thể bị sẹo suốt đời sau khi bị chó dữ tấn công trong chuyến dã ngoại cùng gia đình.

Logan Trim bị thương nặng ở mặt khi bị con chó Labrador đen hành hạ trong công viên ở Cảng Poole, Dorset.

Theo các chuyên gia, vụ tấn công đặc biệt gây sốc vì chó Labrador nổi tiếng có tính khí tuyệt vời và thân thiện với trẻ em cũng như những con chó khác.

Sẹo suốt đời: Logan Trim bị thương nặng ở mặt khi bị chó tấn công

Cậu bé đầy máu và phải khâu 40 mũi trên mặt sau vụ tấn công gây sốc, xảy ra khi mẹ cậu cúi xuống vuốt ve một chú chó con.

Labrador không được cho là mẹ của chú chó con.

Logan đang ở công viên với mẹ Lara Slingsby, em trai Eithan và ông bà nội thì họ phát hiện một người phụ nữ với một chú chó con và một chú chó Labrador màu đen.

Cô Slingsby đã bước tới để vuốt ve chú chó con khi chú chó Labrador bất ngờ nhảy lên người cậu bé ba tuổi, làm rách phần bên phải khuôn mặt của cậu.

The 22-year-old carer, from Colehill, near Wimborne, said: ‘The whole thing was just and was like something out of a horror film.

‘Logan has had nightmares about it and has woken up saying “bad doggy, naughty doggy”.

‘If a dog does something like that to a child then it’s likely to do it again.’

An ambulance was called to Whitecliff Park and his mother tried to stem the blood with Eithan’s muslin.

Logan was taken to Poole Hospital where he underwent surgery for his wounds.

Stitches were sewn into his face from the bottom of his eye to the middle of his mouth, and his cheek swelled to the size of  tennis ball. He now faces being scarred for life.

Miss Slingsby and her children had gone to the seaside park with her parents, Tricia, 45, and Paul, 46, to enjoy the sunshine.

She said: ‘We had been in the park for a family day out as it was lovely and sunny.

‘We had a picnic and Logan had just got off the swings in the park because his granddad had gone to the car to get his kite.

‘We saw a lady sat down about 40 feet away. She had the dog, which looked like a Labrador, and a puppy with her.

‘It wasn’t a pitbull or a Staffordshire bull terrier that you would think would be dangerous.

‘She saw us and smiled so we walked over to her. Logan was a couple of steps behind me. The dog was off the lead and right next to a children’s park so I assumed it would be fine.

‘I put my hand up to the Labrador dog and it sniffed my hand and then I went over to the puppy.

‘I didn’t see what happened but Logan wasn’t running or shouting and didn’t do anything to provoke it.

‘The next thing I knew I heard growling and screaming. I looked around and saw Logan lying on the floor. The dog was just getting off him.

‘The woman grabbed hold of the dog and started apologising.

‘I picked Logan up and took him to the nearest bench. My dad came running over and a lady nearby called an ambulance.

‘Logan’s face was covered in blood, it was everywhere. His T-shirt was covered in it. He was screaming and he went into shock.

‘It was hard because I just wanted to break down, but you don’t want to worry them. They know something is wrong if mum’s crying.

‘He had two big gashes on his lip and another gash below his nose. His lip swelled right up.

‘It was devastating and I was terrified.’

Miss Slingsby said that the woman owner of the Labrador – which was called Sammy – apologised to the Logan’s mother and handed over her phone number.

She added: ‘Logan is recovering now and is back running around and playing and his face has healed. Because he is so young his skin should heal but he is definitely going to have some scarring.’

She also said that after the attack, the woman owner called a man who came a few minutes later and took the dog away.

She said she wanted the dog, about a year old, euthanized, adding: ‘You can’t trust the owner to keep him on a leash or with a muzzle.

A spokesman for Dorset police said: ‘On May 31 we received a report from the ambulance service that a child had been bitten in the face by a dog at Whitecliff Park.

‘The child was taken to hospital. The police are investigating.”