An assassin’s parents trusted him 100% before he tortured their newborn son.
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The parents of a boy mauled to death by the family dog have told a neighbor they trusted the pet ‘100 per cent’.
A distraught neighbour, from Kariong, New South Wales Central Coast , has recounted her chilling conversation with the baby’s parents after he dragged her dog under the fence and ‘teared it’ into pieces’.
Người phụ nữ cho biết cô đã nói chuyện với cặp vợ chồng này vài ngày sau cái chết thương tâm của chú chó cocker spaniel ‘Arrow’ của cô vào ngày 6 tháng 6 – cùng ngày cậu bé chào đời.
‘Họ đến đây để nói về cái chết của Arrow… nói với tôi rằng họ tin tưởng con chó của mình 100%’, người hàng xóm run rẩy nói.
‘Nó cứ lặp đi lặp lại trong đầu tôi.’
Bi kịch thay, 5 tuần sau, vào rạng sáng ngày 11 tháng 7, American Staffordshire đã kéo đứa bé tên là Jaylen ra khỏi giường. Đứa bé không thể sống lại được.
Cậu bé Jaylen bị con chó của gia đình tấn công vào rạng sáng ngày 11/6. Cậu bé qua đời tại nhà riêng
On the day little Jaylen was born, the dog attacked a neighbour’s six-year-old cocker spaniel, Arrow (pictured), who had stuck his head under the fence to say hello to the much bigger dog
Police described the horrific death as a ‘tragic accident’ and said they would not go into details out of respect for the baby’s parents who were inconsolable.
Outside the rental house, where the couple had only lived for a couple of months, soft toys and bunches of flowers were left on the lawn, with messages of condolences.
‘May little Jaylen be in the company of angels,’ one tribute said.
‘Rest in peace baby boy,’ another said.
It is understood the couple is too traumatised to return and are staying with family in Sydney.
The dog was removed and later euthanised.
Pictured: A distraught man believed outside the home the day of the tragic accident
Mourners have created a memorial out the front of Jaylen’s home in the wake of his tragic death
Both she and her husband weren’t able to part with Arrow after his death, and he is now buried in the backyard, up against the opposite fence to where he was snatched
Council rangers were investigating the matter and the dog was the subject of a temperament assessment before it killed little Jaylen.
When Arrow’s owner thinks back to the state of her beloved cocker spaniel’s battered and bloodied body when she found him, her eyes still well with tears.
‘He was all torn up,’ she said. ‘That dog ripped him to shreds.’
Council rangers who responded to the gruesome scene were reportedly in tears when they found Arrow.
One ranger was so moved by what she saw that she delivered a letter of condolence to Arrow’s owners.
‘I told the council to take the dog away,’ the neighbour said.
Several teddy bears and bouquets of flowers were left out the front of the Kariong home on Wednesday afternoon
Friends and strangers have dropped flowers and written notes sending well wishes as family members come to grips with the tragedy
Neighbours woke to screams just after 2am on the morning of the incident.
They were alerted that something was amiss when they noticed every light in the house appeared to be on.
‘I was tired… my first thought was that she was turning all the lights on just to feed her baby,’ a neighbour said.
There were no sirens from authorities, but as time wore on they realised that something far more sinister had occurred.
The couple have set up a shrine to him, complete with a cross-shaped headstone and flower. Their beloved cat Misty, who died of old age just weeks before Arrow, is buried nearby
‘I can’t stop thinking about it… about how this could happen.’
Although this breed is believed to be the American Staffordshire, Arrow’s owner is certain that it is also a mixture of many other breeds.
The deadly attacks on Arrow and Jaylen prompted the animal-loving next-door neighbors to move out after years of living in their Central Coast home.
“We can’t stay,” the woman said. ‘We will take our dogs, cats and chickens to Nowra where they will be more comfortable and safe.’
The couple had only recently moved to the neighborhood, settling in just two months before the tragedy and in time to have their child.