Lynn toddler hurt by Rottweiler
A LYNN toddler was left needing stitches to her face after she was attacked in the street by a loose Rottweiler.
Two-year-old Kaitlyn Lancaster was walking with her mother Emma Barrett on the town's Fairstead Estate when the dog struck on Thursday afternoon.
Police have launched an investigation and are trying to trace the rottweiler, which is thought to have been running loose at the time of the attack.
Miss Barrett (22), who lives in Middlewood, was walking from her mother's house, also in Middlewood, to visit a friend when their ordeal began.
She said: "Kaitlyn was just behind me as we walked down an alley and I heard her say "doggy mummy." I thought she was just talking about the friend's dog we were about to see, but then I heard barking and she began screaming.
"As I turned round I saw a medium-sized Rottweiler running off and I couldn't see an owner. Kaitlyn was crying and there was a lot of blood – she had it all down her top. I was shaking and crying too and picked her up and took her to my friend's house, who then drove us to the hospital."
Miss Barrett spent four hours in the emergency department at Lynn's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where Kaitlyn received three stitches to her face.
"I don't know if she was bitten or scratched, but she has two cuts under her eye and a deep gash near her mouth. They put butterfly stitches in and I'm not sure if it will scar.
"She is on three different types of medication for the pain and to prevent infection," she said.
At the end of last month, a one-year-old boy in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, was killed by a Rottweiler, leading to calls for the breed to be placed on the Government's dangerous dogs register.
Miss Barrett added: "It was such a big dog, she could not push it away. If it had been a smaller dog she might have managed. If anybody knows anything about a rottweiler running loose on Fairstead, I'm asking that they please tell the police.
"The attack happened at around the time when the schools finish so there could have been a lot of children around. We have walked in the area since, but I carried Kaitlyn because I'm more wary about letting her walk now."
A police spokesman said: "We received a report of a young girl being attacked by a dog on the Fairstead Estate on Thursday, January 3, at about 3.30pm. She was given treatment to two cuts to the jaw and cheek.
"Details of the incident have been passed to the local Safer Neighbourhood Team and the council dog warden in an effort to trace the dog."
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