UNITED KINGDOM -- A man has been charged with allowing a dog to be out of control in a public place after a 10-year-old boy was mauled by a bulldog and pit bull.
Norfolk police were called to Goldsmith Street, off Dereham Road in Norwich, yesterday afternoon to reports that a child had attacked by two dogs.
Police arrived on the scene just before 3pm to find a boy had suffered serious injuries to his right arm and two dogs - a bulldog and a Staffordshire pit bull terrier - were seized by police.
Two people were arrested at the scene and taken into custody. This morning police confirmed that Nathan Atkins, 20, of Goldsmith Street, had been charged in connection with the attack.
He has been charged with allowing a dog to be dangerously out of control in a public place and to cause injury.
The injured boy was taken to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries, where he remains in a stable condition.
The 44-year-old woman arrested in connection with the attack was released without charge and the Staffordshire pit bull terrier, which belonged to her, has been given back to her.
But police say that “procedures are being followed” to seek the destruction of the bulldog, which they say was not owned by Mr Atkins, who is due to appear before Norwich Magistrates Court on Tuesday, July 19.
(EDP24 - July 3, 2011)
