Kyna Marie Pamela Deshane, 1-year old, died after being mauled by a rottweiler.
Rottweiler Kills Baby
Henderson, NV - A baby girl is dead after being attacked by a rottweiler, Henderson police confirmed. The deadly dog mauling occurred in the 100 block of Appian Way just before 8:00 am Saturday. The Henderson Police Department, animal control, and Fire Department responded to the home near Horizon Drive and Pacific Avenue. Officers arrived to find a 15-month old girl bitten and injured by a rottweiler. She was transported to Henderson Hospital, where she later died.
On Monday the coroner identified the victim as Kyna Marie Pamela Deshane from Ely. She died due to "multiple injuries from a mauling."
The rottweiler was 4-years old, according to police. Details of the child's injuries were not released. The dog was owned by a friend of the family and was euthanized at the owner's request, police said. The Clark County Coroner's Office will identify the child and the cause and manner of death. The baby's mauling death comes after an unreported fatal pit bull attack in Henderson last May. The dogs had been adopted from the Henderson animal shelter eight months earlier.
Top Counties in Fatal Dog Attacks
Clark County now joins three other counties in the U.S. for the highest rate of fatal dog attacks. As of April 27, 2019, Maricopa County, AZ, Harris County, TX, Riverside County, CA and Clark County, NV all share the distinction of having 8 fatal dog maulings since 2005, the highest ranking counties on record. The problem with Clark County is that they have reached this distinction due to the added number of deaths since 2016. Public shelters adopted out two of these killer dogs too.
In January, Henderson claimed the "no-kill" status. The absence of media scrutiny after two dogs they adopted out killed a man might have helped.
Both of the shelter dog inflicted human fatalities occurred in 2018. The grisly unreported fatal mauling of Bradley Cline, 62, occurred in late May. The attackers, a pair of male pit bulls (about 1-year old), had been adopted from the Henderson Animal Shelter in September 2017. The police report stated the attack lasted up to 20 minutes. In October, Susan Sweeney, 58, was killed by a 3-year old mastiff-mix her family adopted from The Animal Foundation just several days earlier.
A 15-month old baby girl was killed by a rottweiler while visiting her grandfather's home.
The deadly rottweiler attack occurred in the city of Henderson. The dog was euthanized.
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Law enforcement departments across the United States should release consistent "baseline" information to the media and the public after each fatal dog mauling, including these items.
Power breeds should never be allowed around children.
But-but-but they’re nanny dogs! (Sarcasm off.)
An observation:
I find it interesting that the media is using the word “bite” instead of “maul”. I’ve noticed that multiple news outlets are using the phrase “15 month old dies after dog bite” versus “15 month old mauled to death by Rottweiler”. To me, this language removes the responsibility of the dog/dog owner and reduces the severity of the attack in the minds of readers.
And that’s precisely the point.
The dog-besotted media types can’t bring themselves to admit that dogs can — and do — kill people. Saying so would go against the notion that dogs are man’s best friend.
Very sad. I can only imagine how swift this attack was.
Manner of death: Homicide. Cause of death: dog mauling as a result of criminal negligence on the part of the dog owner. Disoposition: Life in prison for the dog owner. Forfeiture of all civil assets to the family of the victim.
Of only! People are so rarely held accountable for the actions of their pets, that it is sickening!
I continue to fail to understand this. If you substitute any one of the words lion, tiger, wolf, or bear for dog and Rottweiler in this story you could be your bottom dollar this would be on the Drudge Report and criminal charges would be filed against the owner. Somehow dogs get a free pass. Pit (and aggressive dog ) apologists try to make like my discrimination against their pets is a form of racism, well, you are being “racist” against lions! I want a pet lion but I know I can’t handle one and I can’t be 100% sure it won’t get out so I won’t get one!
Christy, this is the same analogy I use when I think about how my local animal control would respond at the drop of a dime if someone called in to say there was a bear in their yard vs the non-response I get when I call about a pack of aggressive pitbulls that continue to run loose on my property and keep my children from playing outside.
Guys so so sorry about ur baby my prayers&thoughts.r with u love u Granny Fox
My sister was Mauled by vicious dog Presa Canario with her new born baby few feets away. Husband still has 4 more of these dogs and refuse to get rid of them, and expects my sister to return to same house with her baby after she comes out of ICU and recovery. Please send me anyone’s contact info who has been mauled by dog so i can forward it to my sister to ensure she don’t get manipulated by her husband to go back to the same house. Not sure why people roll dice with human/family life.