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A CHILD ATTACKED BY DOGS.
WE'RE TALKING TO THE HERO WHO
PRIED OPEN THEIR MOUTHS TO STOP
THE VICIOUS BITES.
PITTSBURGH ACTION NEWS 4
REPORTER BOB MAYO WITH THE
INTERVIEW YOU'LL SEE ONLY HERE.
Reporter: THE LITTLE GIRL WHO
WAS ATTACKED LIVES IN THIS HOUSE
WHERE YOU SEE THE TOYS AND BIKE
ON THE PORCH.
SHE WAS VISITING NEXT DOOR AND
COMING OUT OF THIS DOOR WHEN THE
DOG ATTACKED HER.
THE NEIGHBOR WHO RAN TO HELP
LIVES ONE DOOR DOWN.
THERE WAS SCREAMING, LIKE YOU
WOULDN'T BELIEVE.
A LITTLE GIRL RAN OUT OF THE
BACK DOOR OF OUR NEXT-DOOR
NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE, CRYING
HYSTERICALLY AND SHAKING, AND WE
ASKED HER WHAT WAS WRONG.
SHE SAID, THE DOG IS
ATTACKING MY SISTER.
RIGHT THEN WE RAN TO THE FRONT
PORCH.
MY WIFE CALLED THE POLICE.
Reporter: THE 6-YEAR-OLD WAS
IN THE GRIP OF ONE ROTTWEILER
WITH THE OTHER APPROACHING.
SHE WAS APPARENTLY ATTACKED
AFTER LEAVING A VISIT FROM THE
NEIGHBOR AND THE DOGS GOT LOOSE
FROM THE BASEMENT.
OUR NEIGHBOR WAS TRYING TO
ALSO PULL THE DOG OFF OF THE
LITTLE GIRL, BUT THIS DOG WAS
DRAGGING THE LITTLE GIRL, AND MY
NEIGHBOR -- MY HUSBAND STEPPED
IN.
I JUST HELD HIM DOWN AND KEPT
SCREAMING AT HIM LET HER GO.
AND I PUT THE PIPE IN ITS MOUTH.
AND TRIED TO PRY IT OPEN A
LITTLE BIT.
SHE GOT LOOSE AND I HELD IT DOWN
WHILE THEY RAN AWAY.
THEY KEPT TRYING TO GO AFTER
HER.
Reporter: HER MOTHER TELLS US
SABRINA WAS TREATED AT
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOR TWO
LACERATIONS AND MANY PUNCTURE
WOUNDS TO HER SKULLS.
SHE HAS STITCHES ON BOTH EARS
AND A BITE ON HER ARM.
I FEEL EXTREMELY BAD FOR THAT
LITTLE GIRL.
SHE WAS JUST CURIOUS.
SHE WANTED TO PET EVERY DOG IN
THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
SHE LOVED DOGS.
NOW I'M SURE SHE DOESN'T LIKE
THEM TOO MUCH.
WE JUST HOPE THAT THE LITTLE
GIRL IS OKAY.
WE HOPE THAT HER FAMILY'S OKAY.
Reporter: THE LITTLE GIRL'S
MOTHER TELLS US THAT THE CHILD
IS OUT OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
NOW.
AND HAS AN APPOINTMENT TO SEE A
PLASTIC SURGEON NEXT WEEK.