MICHIGAN -- A medical examiner says a 5-year-old Detroit area boy was missing body parts after he was mauled to death last year by a wolf-dog hybrid.
Kyle Holland was killed July 12, 2010, when a 90-pound dog attacked him, police said.
Wayne County medical examiner Carl Schmidt testified Friday in a Lincoln Park courtroom that part of one of Kyle Holland's thigh bones and much of the soft tissue on the thigh were missing at the time of his autopsy.
His chest cavity also was crushed and the boy had more than 80 puncture wounds.
"His buttocks were gone to the point that his sacrum was gone, part of his pelvis was gone, the right hip joint was only partially present," Schmidt said.
The testimony came during the preliminary examination for the boy's mother, Debbralyn Holland, and Earl Adkins.
Holland is charged with involuntary manslaughter and second-degree child abuse. Adkins is charged with dangerous animal death.
The hearing is scheduled to continue on Monday.
Adkins and Debbralyn Holland lived together at the time of the attack.
(Click on Detroit - September 16, 2011)
