Toddler mauled by family dog while playing with mother on back porch dies from her injuries
Triniti Harrell was playing with her mom on the back porch of their home when the family dog brutally attacked her
A one-year-old North Carolina girl who had previously been hospitalized after being viciously mauled by her family's pit bull-mix has died, the Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office confirmed. The attack occurred on October 22 at a home located on N.C. Highway 43, with Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office deputies receiving a desperate call concerning a dog attacking a child.
Sheriff Clee Atkinson said that Miranda Harrell and her daughter Triniti were playing on the back porch of their home when the family's six-year-old dog attacked. WITN reported that Harrell tried to stop the dog but failed. When deputies first arrived at the scene, they saw the dog "slinging the child around in its mouth" like a baby doll.