An arm bandage and splint will be taken off tomorrow, Card said.
But her daughter was in good spirits Friday, Card said, after a visit to the Downtown Aquarium on the way home from Denver.
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Sunday, January 7, 2018
Montana: Toddler attacked by her grandma's Bull Mastiff is recovering
MONTANA -- The 3-year-old who was flown to Colorado for surgery after being attacked by her grandmother’s Bull Mastiff at her home, which she has been running a daycare business out of, has been discharged from the hospital and is in good spirits, her mother said.
Naomi Brown, the toddler, still has considerable swelling, her mother Itxaropen Card said. She will continue taking antibiotics and Tylenol for pain, and will need to schedule follow-up appointments in Billings with an orthopedic surgeon, an ophthalmologist and her pediatrician.
An arm bandage and splint will be taken off tomorrow, Card said.
But her daughter was in good spirits Friday, Card said, after a visit to the Downtown Aquarium on the way home from Denver.
(Billings Gazette - January 5, 2018)
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An arm bandage and splint will be taken off tomorrow, Card said.
But her daughter was in good spirits Friday, Card said, after a visit to the Downtown Aquarium on the way home from Denver.
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Saturday, January 6, 2018
Montana: Toddler mauled by her grandma's Bull Mastiff
MONTANA -- It was every parent’s worst nightmare.
Itxaropen Card, a Billings mother, got a call at noon Tuesday that her 3-year-old daughter, Naomi, had been attacked by a dog and was in an ambulance on the way to Billings Clinic.
Naomi had been at the home of her grandmother, Michelle Repeta (aka Michelle Brown), who runs Precious Time Daycare from her home at 1512 St. Johns Ave.
Animal control officials aren’t certain what provoked the bull mastiff, named Titan, to attack.
“Well, nobody saw it happen, so nobody knows exactly what happened,” said Tom Stinchfield, Animal Control supervisor for Billings.
The attack left the youngster with deep wounds on her hand, neck and face.
The dog ripped ligaments in the child’s wrist that have left her struggling to move her fingers on her right hand.
And one ear was “split in half,” Card said.
“So they had to sew that up,” she said.
Naomi was flown to Children’s Hospital Colorado, in Aurora, for treatment. She arrived around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Card said, and underwent surgery around 1 a.m. Wednesday.
Card anticipates she and her husband will be able to drive her daughter back to Billings on Thursday.
“It’s just really hard to see her like that,” Card said, of her daughter. “I just cry every time.”
Repeta reported the incident to the Department of Public Health and Human Services within two hours, said DPHHS spokesman Jon Ebelt. DPHHS is the licensing agency for day care centers in Montana. State law requires day care agencies report such incidents within 24 hours.
Reached by The Gazette Wednesday, Repeta stressed that the dog attack took place in a part of the home — the basement — where children in the day care are not allowed. The dog was kept separate from the kids during day care hours, she said.
The grandmother declined to comment further.
Stinchfield, the animal control supervisor, said Repeta and the others in the home were cooperative with animal control officers. Repeta asked officers to euthanize the dog and walked it to the animal control vehicle for officers to take away.
While dog bites are common — Billings Animal Control received 291 calls in 2016 — ones as serious as the attack that landed Card’s daughter in the hospital Tuesday are more rare, with just eight in 2016 designated as attacks by dangerous animals.
Under city code, a “dangerous animal” is one that, without intentional provocation, causes serious bodily injury or death, “is involved in a continuous sustained attack upon a person, not allowing the victim any means of escape,” or has a history of attacking people, as specified through various city code provisions.
In Bozeman in June, two dogs mauled a woman working in her garden, leaving her brain-dead. The dogs belonged to tenants who lived on her property, according to The Associated Press.
In Virginia in December, two dogs fatally mauled their owner while walking in the woods, The Washington Post reported.
(Billings Gazette - January 3, 2018)
Itxaropen Card, a Billings mother, got a call at noon Tuesday that her 3-year-old daughter, Naomi, had been attacked by a dog and was in an ambulance on the way to Billings Clinic.
Naomi had been at the home of her grandmother, Michelle Repeta (aka Michelle Brown), who runs Precious Time Daycare from her home at 1512 St. Johns Ave.
“Well, nobody saw it happen, so nobody knows exactly what happened,” said Tom Stinchfield, Animal Control supervisor for Billings.
The attack left the youngster with deep wounds on her hand, neck and face.
The dog ripped ligaments in the child’s wrist that have left her struggling to move her fingers on her right hand.
And one ear was “split in half,” Card said.
“So they had to sew that up,” she said.
Naomi was flown to Children’s Hospital Colorado, in Aurora, for treatment. She arrived around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Card said, and underwent surgery around 1 a.m. Wednesday.
Card anticipates she and her husband will be able to drive her daughter back to Billings on Thursday.
“It’s just really hard to see her like that,” Card said, of her daughter. “I just cry every time.”
Repeta reported the incident to the Department of Public Health and Human Services within two hours, said DPHHS spokesman Jon Ebelt. DPHHS is the licensing agency for day care centers in Montana. State law requires day care agencies report such incidents within 24 hours.
Reached by The Gazette Wednesday, Repeta stressed that the dog attack took place in a part of the home — the basement — where children in the day care are not allowed. The dog was kept separate from the kids during day care hours, she said.
The grandmother declined to comment further.
Stinchfield, the animal control supervisor, said Repeta and the others in the home were cooperative with animal control officers. Repeta asked officers to euthanize the dog and walked it to the animal control vehicle for officers to take away.
While dog bites are common — Billings Animal Control received 291 calls in 2016 — ones as serious as the attack that landed Card’s daughter in the hospital Tuesday are more rare, with just eight in 2016 designated as attacks by dangerous animals.
Under city code, a “dangerous animal” is one that, without intentional provocation, causes serious bodily injury or death, “is involved in a continuous sustained attack upon a person, not allowing the victim any means of escape,” or has a history of attacking people, as specified through various city code provisions.
In Bozeman in June, two dogs mauled a woman working in her garden, leaving her brain-dead. The dogs belonged to tenants who lived on her property, according to The Associated Press.
In Virginia in December, two dogs fatally mauled their owner while walking in the woods, The Washington Post reported.
(Billings Gazette - January 3, 2018)
Saturday, January 7, 2017
Iowa: Daycare provider Melissa Anderson Denies Wrongdoing in Child Endangerment Charges
IOWA -- A Des Moines woman is out of jail on bond Thursday after being charged with two counts of child endangerment.
Melissa Anderson was arrested Wednesday; police say while caring for two children her pit bull attacked them.
Anderson says the two were her god-children, the attack never happened, and she’s innocent of the charges.
According to court documents the children had multiple lacerations, cuts, bleeding, and infection did not happen under her care.
“When they were saying everything happened, it was me, my youngest sister, my kid’s grandmother and my kids [here], so they were never left unattended, the dogs were never left unattended, a pit bull is always locked up or if they were in a room, the pit bull was in another room” said Anderson.
According to court documents the children were dropped off by their mother on November 11, and Anderson brought them back the next day. Anderson’s friend Kay Miles says they were only told something was wrong much later that evening.
“I said, ‘you didn’t see this on your kids?’ She says right there in both of our faces, ‘no I didn’t see anything’, well I told her ‘you gotta be Stevie Wonder not to see that, because as soon as you sent the pictures to Melissa’s phone so we could see what you were talking about, Melissa broke down and started crying and said ‘Kay you know if I would have saw this, I would have told her to meet me at the hospital’’”
Anderson says the children have eczema, and Miles believes the markings come from itching and lack of medical attention.
“The children stay sick; the only time they get nursed back to health is when they’re over here with Melissa” said Anderson.
The dogs have been taken by police to get molds of their teeth. Anderson says police are checking if their dental patterns match up with the markings on the children.
“To clear me I have to clear my dogs” said Anderson.
According to court documents Anderson has a lengthy criminal record.
In 2008 Anderson plead guilty to possession of crack cocaine with intent to deliver; in that same case she was charged with three counts of neglect of a dependent person which were dismissed by the court.
Attempts to reach the children’s mother went unanswered.
(WHOTV - Jan 6, 2017)
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Melissa Anderson was arrested Wednesday; police say while caring for two children her pit bull attacked them.
Anderson says the two were her god-children, the attack never happened, and she’s innocent of the charges.
According to court documents the children had multiple lacerations, cuts, bleeding, and infection did not happen under her care.
“When they were saying everything happened, it was me, my youngest sister, my kid’s grandmother and my kids [here], so they were never left unattended, the dogs were never left unattended, a pit bull is always locked up or if they were in a room, the pit bull was in another room” said Anderson.
According to court documents the children were dropped off by their mother on November 11, and Anderson brought them back the next day. Anderson’s friend Kay Miles says they were only told something was wrong much later that evening.
“I said, ‘you didn’t see this on your kids?’ She says right there in both of our faces, ‘no I didn’t see anything’, well I told her ‘you gotta be Stevie Wonder not to see that, because as soon as you sent the pictures to Melissa’s phone so we could see what you were talking about, Melissa broke down and started crying and said ‘Kay you know if I would have saw this, I would have told her to meet me at the hospital’’”
Anderson says the children have eczema, and Miles believes the markings come from itching and lack of medical attention.
“The children stay sick; the only time they get nursed back to health is when they’re over here with Melissa” said Anderson.
The dogs have been taken by police to get molds of their teeth. Anderson says police are checking if their dental patterns match up with the markings on the children.
“To clear me I have to clear my dogs” said Anderson.
According to court documents Anderson has a lengthy criminal record.
In 2008 Anderson plead guilty to possession of crack cocaine with intent to deliver; in that same case she was charged with three counts of neglect of a dependent person which were dismissed by the court.
Attempts to reach the children’s mother went unanswered.
(WHOTV - Jan 6, 2017)
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Iowa: Day care provider Melissa Anderson, 33, faces child endangerment charges after two children in her care were attacked by pit bulls
IOWA -- A Des Moines day care provider faces child endangerment charges after two children in her care were attacked by dogs.
Melissa Anderson, 33, is charged with two counts of child endangerment with bodily injury.
Court documents indicate twin siblings were mauled by a pit bull terrier, named Trouble, in her home.
The incident happened on Nov. at her residence on the 7300 block of Southwest 14th Street. Court documents show the children suffered multiple lacerations, cuts, bleeding and skin separation in the attack. Additionally, both children suffered infections.
Police said Anderson failed to seek medical attention for the children, and failed to notify the parents or police of the injuries.
Police said the parents noticed the injuries when picking up the children from the day care and immediately took both children to a hospital.
Anderson’s neighbor, Becca Wise, said she had no idea that Anderson was gone, or that the kids who were recently injured were under Anderson's supervision as a day care provider.
“I see kids going in and out and playing in the street and playing in the front yard,” Wise said. “I didn't even realize that there was a day care center.”
Officials with Iowa Human Services confirmed that Anderson is not a registered day care provider, meaning she is only allowed to watch five or fewer children.
“I have counted a total of 11 people in that house at once,” Wise said. “Two adults and then the rest children.”
Police said the dog bit a 7-year-old child in May, and was classified as a high-risk animal for the breed and behavior.
Sgt. James Butler, with Des Moines Police Animal Control, said Anderson signed a document acknowledging her dog was high risk due to breed and behavior following the May incident.
“Make no mistake, Trouble cannot ever be in a situation where she is at large again or involved in a bite or any violation of the Des Moines municipal ordinance,” Butler said.
Anderson was booked into the Polk County Jail and has since been released on bail.
Butler said it is now up to animal control to decide if the dog will go from being labeled high risk to being considered dangerous to the community.
(KCCI - Jan 5, 2017)
Melissa Anderson, 33, is charged with two counts of child endangerment with bodily injury.
Court documents indicate twin siblings were mauled by a pit bull terrier, named Trouble, in her home.
The incident happened on Nov. at her residence on the 7300 block of Southwest 14th Street. Court documents show the children suffered multiple lacerations, cuts, bleeding and skin separation in the attack. Additionally, both children suffered infections.
Police said Anderson failed to seek medical attention for the children, and failed to notify the parents or police of the injuries.
Police said the parents noticed the injuries when picking up the children from the day care and immediately took both children to a hospital.
Anderson’s neighbor, Becca Wise, said she had no idea that Anderson was gone, or that the kids who were recently injured were under Anderson's supervision as a day care provider.
“I see kids going in and out and playing in the street and playing in the front yard,” Wise said. “I didn't even realize that there was a day care center.”
Officials with Iowa Human Services confirmed that Anderson is not a registered day care provider, meaning she is only allowed to watch five or fewer children.
“I have counted a total of 11 people in that house at once,” Wise said. “Two adults and then the rest children.”
Police said the dog bit a 7-year-old child in May, and was classified as a high-risk animal for the breed and behavior.
Sgt. James Butler, with Des Moines Police Animal Control, said Anderson signed a document acknowledging her dog was high risk due to breed and behavior following the May incident.
“Make no mistake, Trouble cannot ever be in a situation where she is at large again or involved in a bite or any violation of the Des Moines municipal ordinance,” Butler said.
Anderson was booked into the Polk County Jail and has since been released on bail.
Butler said it is now up to animal control to decide if the dog will go from being labeled high risk to being considered dangerous to the community.
(KCCI - Jan 5, 2017)
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