Jamie Morales, the toddler’s mother, told KTLA-TV Channel 5 that the dog had her daughter by the leg. “I had to stab the dog. ... I had to,” Morales told the station. “It was either him or my daughter, and I chose my daughter.”
A dog attack in Pico Rivera late Sunday night left a mother and her 1-year-old daughter injured, and the woman stabbed to death one of the animals to save her child.
Deputies received a call at 10:18 p.m. reporting a dog bite in the 9600 block of Homebrook Street, according to Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokesperson Miguel Meza. Authorities said at least one of the dogs — described as pit bulls — bit the toddler when she started crying. Other family members tried to pull the dogs off, the toddler’s grandmother Margaret Ann Morales told“I walked into the kitchen, and that’s when I saw my two daughters and my son on the floor trying to get the dogs off,” she told the station.that the dog had her daughter by the leg. Morales said her face was bitten and her hands cut open as she tried to free her daughter.
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