Justin Lopez, 9-months old, was killed by two rottweilers near Perkins, Oklahoma.
Two Rottweilers
UPDATE 03/11/10: The Journal confirms the breed of dog that killed a 9-month old child: Two adult rottweilers. A source close to the family said the dogs had been brought into the home Sunday night, reports The Journal. Just hours later, the little boy crawled out of his crib and was killed by the animals. The child's mother, Stephanie Easley, was at work at the time of the incident. Easley was taken to Stillwater Medical Center to be treated for emotional distress and shock.
The incident was reported to Iowa Tribal Police at 11: 11 a.m. Monday, March 8. Officers were dispatched to a home at 750801 S. 3380 Road to find the baby boy had been mauled by two adult Rottweiler dogs.
A source close to the family said the dogs had been brought into the home Sunday night. The attack apparently occurred Monday morning in a hallway outside a bedroom where the baby and his two year-old brother had been sleeping with their father, Juan Lopez. It is not known how the nine-month-old got out of his crib ...
The source said the two dogs, a male and a female, were killed and taken to Oklahoma State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital for necropsy. - Cindy Sheets, The Journal, March 11, 2010
03/10/10: Fatality Victim Identified
The name of an infant who was fatally attacked by a dog south of Perkins, Oklahoma has been released by the state Medical Examiner’s office. Justin Lopez, 8-months old, died of blunt force trauma to the head, medical examiner’s spokeswoman Cherokee Ballard said. Firefighters responded to a call that a child had been attacked by a dog at about 11 am Monday. The incident occurred on Iowa tribal land in Payne County. The tribe continues to have no comment.
03/08/10: Dog at Home One Day
Perkins, OK - In a developing story, an infant was killed Monday morning at a rural residence, south of Perkins, after being attacked by a dog. The attack happened in Payne County, on Iowa Tribal land. Iowa Tribe Police Chief confirmed the fatal dog mauling, but would not release any other details, adding, "We have no comment at this time." A cousin of the victim, Stephen Wood, said the dog that killed the infant was a rottweiler the family had brought home on Sunday.
An infant, new to the household, plus a new pit bull or rottweiler added to the home, is a ruinous and possibly deadly combination, as demonstrated by this horrific incident, which will soon become "yet another fatal dog attack statistic." The risk associated to this combination rises wholly off the charts. One should not expose an innocent and defenseless infant to any breed of dog, but to expose such a child to the top two killing dog breeds is as reprehensible as it is tragic.
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The Indian tribes RARELY have a response after a serious or fatal dog attack: "An Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma spokeswoman said the tribe had no comment about the attack." The question is, HOW MANY tribal serious or fatal dog attacks go unreported by the U.S. media? Tribal lands = gambling = pit bulls raised for the purposes of DOGFIGHTING. The Iowa tribal community is even trying to cover up a fatal mauling by a ROTTWIELER. Give me a break already!
There has been pit bull breeding on Indian land, which was discovered after some of the pit bulls got loose, crossed the border into non-Indian land, and brutally mauled someone nearly to death.
The sad thing is that many Indian areas have abandoned, stray dogs dying in the streets and in the woods. Breeding countless litters outside that then starve or get hit by cars, etc.
It's an awful problem that much of America doesn't know about, just as the rest of America doesn't know about the pit bull breeding and dog attacks on Indian land.
None dare call it legalized Manslaughter.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2869290/Crazed-Rottweiler-scalps-boy-5.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News
Another example of what these dogs can do to a child.
We had RAVS, the mobile vet service from HSUS, come to Indian land a few years ago and did production line spay/neuter and medical. RAVS will always ask first if your request is for tribal land because they want to do this due to the severe problems on the reservations. The problems with dogs and animals on tribal land is well known and recognized by HSUS and others.
PERKINS, Okla. (AP) — An official with the Iowa Tribe in Perkins says two rottweilers that attacked and killed an 8-month-old boy have been destroyed. Tribal Administrator Stephanie Ramsey said in a statement Wednesday that the two dogs were given to the infant's family on Sunday. Ramsey says the dogs mauled Justin Josiah Big Soldier-Lopez on Monday after being brought into the home because it was raining.
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Anyone know if they were male and female, unaltered? Sounds like they wanted to become "breeders". It's one thing for an adult who makes decisions to be killed, but quite another for an innocent child to be killed because of an adult's decisions. I understand that that the Haakers aren't going to be charged with the death of their child. This needs to end. Parents are charged if they leave their baby in a tub of water to drown while they answer the phone, why not charge the parents when the dogs kill? I've actually heard people say that the DOGS should have known better.
What where they thinking? They don't. Once again perception and reality meet in the deadly areana of fate, Stupidity. This arean is truly a vicious circle. My contempt infinite, still I ache more for the pain as parents and the inconsolable mother. My heart aches and I will pray.