Children were dodging rain drops this Easter for the chance to play outside, but Aiden Stevenson can't go outside to play. Last week while staying with his grandmother in Monroe, a pit bull attacked Aiden, biting him in the face.
"They always tell them not to come back here because they know about the dogs or whatever," says the dog's owner, Chelsea Carter. She says Aiden was playing with her children when they went into the backyard where the dogs were chained. When he got too close, the dog attacked.
After two emergency surgeries, it's not over for the Kindergartner.
"They went into his jaw, and that's whenever they realized it's not just fractured, it's pretty much crushed," says Aiden's father Joe Stevenson, "the doctor says he will have to have plastic surgery at some point for the scarring, and depending on how the jaw heals, they may have to go back in and do an adjustment there, too."
The dog was taken by Ouachita Parish Animal Control to be monitored for rabies, but will be released to its owners later this week.
"The only thing they can say is, well, if it happens again we'll put the dog down. Well if it happens again, it may kill another child," says Stevenson.
Because the dog was on a leash, animal control officers say no laws were violated.
(KNOE - Mar 31, 2013)
