Dog Tears Baby's Skull In Lagos (PHOTO)

man, Stanley Jegede, said to be the caretaker of house
35, Adegboyega Street, Akesan, Igando, Lagos, has been
arrested by the police for allowing his giant dogs tear the
skull of the child of a tenant, Abraham Odia.
During the incident that happened at about 5.46 pm on
Thursday, four year- old Omoniho Isaac Abraham
narrowly escaped death, as the dogs pulled out his skull.
Omoniho is currently on admission at the intensive care
section of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital
(LASUTH), Ikeja, Lagos.
The two elder brothers to the victim whose ages range
between seven and 12 years were also injured as they
jumped from upstairs to evade the dogs’ attack.
Daily Independent investigation revealed that Jegede and
his two dogs had been arrested and detained at the
Igando Police Station.
Narrating the incident to Daily Independent at the LASUTH
premises on Monday, Abraham, father of the children, said
that his wife went to buy something for the children, and
that shortly after she left, the children came downstairs
with their bicycles to play as he lives upstairs.
But unknown to them, the giant dogs belonging to the
landlord’s brother (Stanley Jegede) were not chained.
“Immediately they came down, two of the dogs chased
them. The third dog was chained. They ran back up stairs,
but the dogs chased them up, three of them ran up, but
the dogs still attacked them forcing the other two who
were 12 and seven years old to jump down leaving their
younger one who could not jump. They sustained fracture
injury on the legs. The dogs pounced on the boy, tore his
skull and battered his face”.
He added that sympathizers who were helpless had to call
in the police.
He said that even with that, no one could go in for fear of
attack by the dogs, until his wife rushed back after she
received a distress call.
“Nobody could go in, including the police, but my wife had
to summon courage and defy the dogs’ barking and threat
to go in and saw her son in the pool of his own blood,
carried him and rushed out of the house. She was then
accompanied by the police to Igando general hospital
from where they were referred to LASUTH.