Fatal Dog Attack: Witness Says Newborn Baby Was Mutilated While Mom ‘Appeared’ To Bathroom

WARNING: distressing content

A Hamilton mother had only turned her back to go to the bathroom when one of the family’s two dogs fatally attacked her newborn baby, according to a witness.

An Enderley resident told Stuff he ran to help the mother who was sitting outside her home cradling her newborn baby who was crying and covered in dirt Sunday night.

The baby was rushed to Waikato hospital shortly after 7 p.m., was born less than a day early, but tragically died overnight Monday.

The neighbor who only wanted to be known as Karen told Stuff that a Rottweiler, one of the two dogs in the family, had apparently taken and mutilated the newborn baby and was trying to bury it while the mother went to the bathroom.

The neighbor had met the baby earlier that day when the Rottweiler escaped from the property and, being familiar with the dog, helped put him back on the fence.

The mother was delighted with the baby’s birth the night before and had proudly shown the little baby, according to Stuff.

But he only returned later that night when he saw a commotion in the street and thought the dog must have escaped again.

It wasn’t until she got closer that she was the mother sitting on the grass holding the baby who was crying loudly.

“He was so small,” she told Stuff Karen, who then went and hugged the mother to comfort her.

“It was all dirty and had blood stains.

“He told me which dog did it, they have two. It was the Rottweiler.”

The woman appeared to have gone to the bathroom when the rottweiler, about 2 years old, attacked the baby and then tried to bury it.

“All he did was go to the bathroom and it happened like this.

“Everything is horrible, every time I close my eyes I see it.”

Karen said she re-tied the dog that night before animal control arrived, as no one else was prepared to approach the dogs.

He said he almost felt guilty for returning the Rottweiler earlier in the day given the tragedy that had unfolded later that night.

The Herald understands that there were two dogs in the proper place and one was not registered with the council.

The Hamilton City Council confirmed that animal control staff had collected a dog and were holding it at the council’s animal control facility until the police investigation was completed.

In a statement, Hamilton City Council Animal Control Manager staff Susan Stanford was contacted by police shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday to attend a reported dog attack involving a baby in the suburb. of Enderley.

The council declined to comment on the breed of the dog or whether it was registered, referring all questions to New Zealand police.

The baby’s death has been referred to the forensic doctor.