The powerful dog attacked the child in a pub beer garden in Liverpool after she innocently went over to pat it and then suffered six deep lacerations to her face
A criminal with a history of violence has been jailed after his banned pit bull terrier dog savaged a three-year-old girl – leaving her with horrific facial injuries.
The victim, who is now 4, has been left with permanent scarring to her left cheek and for months after the incident would wake up screaming in the night and 'talking about the big dog'. Harris, of Ormskirk, West Lancashire, pleaded guilty to being the owner of a dog dangerously out of control in public which caused injury.
'The victim was a child and a little one at that. The dog was a banned breed, a pit bull terrier, although I don't have evidence that you knew that and I don't know you did know that.' The child, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was in the pub garden with family members. The dog, which was there with another dog, 'had been seen by other customers behaving erratically, barking, chewing tables and becoming agitated.'
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