Heartbreaking photos emerge of girl and her baby brother who were killed by family’s pit bulls
Heartbreaking photos have emerged of the two children who were brutally mauled to death by their family’s two pit bulls.
The two children brutally mauled to death by their family pit bulls have been identified in a series of heartbreaking photos.
Little Lilly Jane Bennard, two, and her five-month-old brother, Hollace Dean Bennard, died on Wednesday after their family dogs unexpectedly attacked them.
The horror discovery was made on Wednesday at a home near Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park in Shelby County, Tennessee, The US Sun reports.
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The children’s mother, Kirstie Jane Bennard, 30, who was also attacked in the horrifying encounter, is hospitalised in critical condition.
According to the Daily Mail, Kirstie spent “over 10 minutes” trying to save her children from the dogs.
Jeff Gibson, Kirstie’s husband, who was unharmed in the incident, told the outlet his wife has an “uncountable about of stitches and bite marks over the entire body, including her face”.
He added that his wife’s “arms and legs are completely bandaged/wrapped up”.
Gibson told the Mail that Kirstie’s injuries won’t cause any “permanent damage, other than a heart that will never heal”.
A family friend told the outlet that the mother-of-two is “hanging in there”.
The county’s Animal Control took the dogs into custody, and they have since been euthanized.
This article originally appeared in The US Sun and was reproduced with permission
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