Three-week-old baby girl is killed in her home by a pit bull after being left alone with the animal for five minutes
- The infant girl was said to be in an approved bouncy chair with three dogs in the house
- Her mother and at least one other adult were said to be outside ‘for five minutes’
- When the baby was checked on, she had bites to her head
- One dog had blood around its mouth
- The dogs are currently under quarantine at an animal shelter
- Some neighbors said the dogs were ‘vicious’
An infant died after being left alone with three pit bulls and attacked, said police.
The three-week-old infant girl, identified as Susannah Jean Murray, was left alone in a bouncy chair for only about five minutes on Thursday with the dogs in the 1100 block of Kalamazoo Avenue in Grand Rapids, Michigan, reported MLive.
When an adult checked on her, she had injuries and one of the dogs, who is two-years-old, had blood near its mouth. Police said her injuries were consistent with a dog bite to the head.
Police said the mother was home at time outside on the porch but is not the one who discovered the bloodied child.
The baby was rushed to the hospital and underwent surgery but died the next morning.
‘Our sweet baby Suzie, a mere three weeks old, joined the angels in heaven,’ said her obituary.
No arrests have been made. The dogs were brought to the Kent County Animal Shelter, where they are under quarantine.
‘When you have an infant or children who are unable to defend themselves, basically defenseless, an adult should always be in the company of a child especially a three-week-old,’ Grand Rapids Police Department Sgt. Terry Dixon told WWMT.