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Boy Wounded Boy Family Dog, Taken Into Child Protective Services

A Washington State child has been taken from his parents after their neglect lead to his severe mauling by a dog. Port Angeles police say that the 11-year-old boy was left at home alone with the family’s three-year-old lab and Rottweiler mix when the dog attacked him. The boy ran to his neighbor’s house, who took him to Harborview Medical Center. He was treated for multiple puncture and tear wounds caused by the dog. The neighbor claims that the boy was bleeding heavily from his face.

The boy should have been at school or under the care of his parents, but Washington police say that the father, Matthew Sims, was out stealing a motorcycle at the time of the dog attack. The father allegedly was also drinking and may be responsible for mistreating or neglecting the dog in the years before the dog attack. In fact, the neighbor claims that after the father saw what the dog had done, he kicked the dog in the back of the head.

The dog, Jack, was taken to the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society, though he is not considered adoptable. After the dog attack, the neighbor said that the dog went “berserk” in the house and then ran away. The father later returned with the dog. 

The boy has been taken from his family and is in the care of Child Protective Services. His future, like Jack’s future, is unclear.

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