A toddler has been airlifted to hospital after being viciously attacked by a dog in Faversham, Kent. The child, who has not been identified, was airlifted from a home in the Broomfield Road area. Police were called to the address at around 2.15pm yesterday and the dog was removed from the property. The toddler was taken to a London hospital with “a number of injuries”, although none are believed to be life-threatening, police said. It follows a spate of dog attacks in the UK in recent months, some of which have resulted in life-changing injuries or death. Harley Chatterton, four, needed 60 stitches after being attacked by a 1-year-old Jackador in Glasgow.
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Doctors have warned her parents that she may end up with permanent scarring as a result of the May 14 attack. In the same month, three-year-old Daniel John Twigg was identified as the toddler killed by a dog outside a property in Rochdale. In March, 17-month-old Bella-Rae Birch died after being mauled by her family’s dog in St Helena. Jack Lees, 10, was mauled to death by an eight-stone dog, dubbed ‘The Beast’, while visiting a friend in Caerphilly, South Wales, last November. The dog’s owners, Brandon Hayden, 19, and Amy Salter, 29, were jailed in June. Contact our news team by emailing us at [email protected] For more stories like this, check out our news page.
