Dog kills toddler
Kauai Garden Island News
Dog kills toddler
By TOM FINNEGAN - TGI Staff Writer
Posted: Tuesday, Feb 24, 2004 - 04:17:36 am HST
A neighbor's dog on a leash on the neighbor's property apparently attacked a 17-month-old boy who had wandered into the yard Saturday on Moloa'a Hui Road in Moloa'a.
The boy, identified as Truston Liddle of Moloa'a, sustained injuries to the head, neck and chest, and later died at Wilcox Memorial Hospital.
At 5:03 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, a family member called 911 dispatchers to report the child needed medical attention because he had severe injuries to the head, neck and chest area.
But, by then, Liddle's mother had left for the hospital in the family car. Names of the parents were not immediately available, and calls to one of the family homes in Moloa�a were not returned yesterday.
Kaua'i Fire Department responders and other medical personnel caught up to the mother and boy near Kula High & Intermediate School, at the corner of Kapuna Road and Kuhio Highway.
They brought the baby to Wilcox Memorial Hospital, where he later died, said Cyndi Mei Ozaki, county public information officer.
Following standard procedure, the suspected animal was taken by a Kauai Humane Society animal control officer, and is at the KHS facility near Puhi while the incident is being investigated.
The case is currently being investigated as a dangerous-dog violation, Ozaki said.
The dog apparently was leashed on the owner's property, said Dr. Rebecca Rhoades, executive director of the Kauai Humane Society.
The dog is a mid-sized male, a 'poi dog,' a mixed breed, with no pit-bull blood, said Rhoades.
'It is extremely rare,' said Rhoades of the dog-attack fatality.
Dog kills toddler
By TOM FINNEGAN - TGI Staff Writer
Posted: Tuesday, Feb 24, 2004 - 04:17:36 am HST
A neighbor's dog on a leash on the neighbor's property apparently attacked a 17-month-old boy who had wandered into the yard Saturday on Moloa'a Hui Road in Moloa'a.
The boy, identified as Truston Liddle of Moloa'a, sustained injuries to the head, neck and chest, and later died at Wilcox Memorial Hospital.
At 5:03 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, a family member called 911 dispatchers to report the child needed medical attention because he had severe injuries to the head, neck and chest area.
But, by then, Liddle's mother had left for the hospital in the family car. Names of the parents were not immediately available, and calls to one of the family homes in Moloa�a were not returned yesterday.
Kaua'i Fire Department responders and other medical personnel caught up to the mother and boy near Kula High & Intermediate School, at the corner of Kapuna Road and Kuhio Highway.
They brought the baby to Wilcox Memorial Hospital, where he later died, said Cyndi Mei Ozaki, county public information officer.
Following standard procedure, the suspected animal was taken by a Kauai Humane Society animal control officer, and is at the KHS facility near Puhi while the incident is being investigated.
The case is currently being investigated as a dangerous-dog violation, Ozaki said.
The dog apparently was leashed on the owner's property, said Dr. Rebecca Rhoades, executive director of the Kauai Humane Society.
The dog is a mid-sized male, a 'poi dog,' a mixed breed, with no pit-bull blood, said Rhoades.
'It is extremely rare,' said Rhoades of the dog-attack fatality.
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