3-year-old girl mauled by dog in Taylor

Taylor child mauled by dog in Robbinwood Villa Mobile Home Park

The girl wandered away from her home in the Robbinwood Villa Mobile Home Park at about 10:30 a.m. when the attack took place. She suffered serious injuries with bites to her face, but her wounds are not life-threatening.

FOX 2 - A 3-year-old girl was mauled by a dog in Taylor on Wednesday morning.

The girl wandered away from her home in the Robbinwood Villa Mobile Home Park at about 10:30 a.m. when the attack took place.

She suffered serious injuries with bites to her face, but her wounds are not life-threatening.

The child's mother heard her screaming and reported seeing a neighbor running at her with her injured daughter. That neighbor was Eddie Cooper, who ran to rescue the little girl by hitting the dog. 

"If I would’ve left that baby, it would’ve died," he said. It had bit the child in the face and went back to its legs, so I had a good place to bang it bop the dog, the dog flopped."

Valorie Lyons lives with the pitbull that attacked the girl and spoke to FOX 2 about what happened.

"The child was running around in the back, and the dog went straight after the little girl," she said.

Police are investigating the incident at a mobile home community. 

Authorities took the dog away, and neighbors say that the dog likely will be put down. As far as the little girl, she is in a serious-but not life-threatening condition.