April 28, 2004

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  Ky. Girl Survives Losing Scalp In Pit Bull Attack

  
  

  HODGENVILLE, Ky. -- 4-year-old Emily Page Stinnett is lucky to be alive after an attack by the family's pit bull.

  
  

  
  

  Something provoked the dog, and it snapped, pulling its stake as it lunged at the girl and biting her face just above the eyebrow.

  
  

  
  

  "I guess you would say she was more or less scalped," Sheriff Bobby Shoffer said. "She had some puncture wounds to her stomach."

  
  

  
  

  The dog then dragged the little girl around the yard as she screamed for help. Her stepmother ran to Emily's aid, but the dog would not let her near the little girl. The stepmother took off in her car to get a neighbor to help rescue little the girl.

  
  

  
  

  Doctors told the sheriff that the child's hair and scalp had to be found and delivered or she would die. Shoffer said he had to cut the dog's stomach open to find the scalp, which was then rushed to the hospital.

  
  

  
  

  Doctors reattached the majority of the scalp, but the girl still might face more surgeries.

  
  

   

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