FLORIDA -- A 5-year-old found bleeding in a yard on Burgess Avenue in Cocoa on Thursday may have been attacked by dogs.
The girl was airlifted to Arnold Palmer Hospital in critical condition. The dogs implicated were stained with blood when impounded after the attack, investigators said.
When they finished with the helpless little girl at her house down a private drive, she lay barely conscious and bleeding badly.
"She was out of it, she was not responsive, she was barely breathing because she was all clogged up," said Frank Orwig, the girl's father. "It's gonna be touch and go for the next few days until she gets through this initial trauma."
No one saw what happened, but her injuries were consistent with an animal attack, deputies said.
"She was laying there in the field unconscious with blood on her. I ran out and picked her up, carried her in the house and tried to find where the blood was coming from. It was just so much," Orwig said.
He said the dog that led the attack had been abandoned on his property by a friend. The Brevard County Sheriff's Office is investigating the attack.
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"As they were family dogs, there were no witnesses to it. So we're not pursuing the criminal side of that right now," said Dave Jacobs, with the Sheriff's Office.
(WESH Orlando - Oct 31, 2014)
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