A 6-year-old girl is recovering from injuries after she was attacked by a neighbor's pit bull.
""He pushed his head and got his body into the gate" Harmony Phillips recounted.
Police say the dog bit Harmony and dragged her down a driveway near her home on Arbor Avenue in Cleveland Monday.
Just spoke with the mother of 6-year- old Harmony who tells me her daughter was attacked by the neighbor's pit bull. pic.twitter.com/xzz2FixubD
— Mona Kosar Abdi (@MonaAbdiWEWS) April 5, 2017
" They were back here playing basketball.. and I don't know the dogs were barking at them" said Harmony's mother Lavita Lipscomb. The pit bull went underneath a fence and into a neighbor's yard where it bit Harmony Phillips on her cheek, shoulder and leg.
Now - the owner is begging the mother not to press charges but Harmony's mother says they need to be held accountable pic.twitter.com/MdGHIeHx0o
— Mona Kosar Abdi (@MonaAbdiWEWS) April 5, 2017
The dog was impounded by the City of Cleveland Animal Care & Control.
The girl's mother, Lavita Lipscomb, wants authorities to press charges against the dog's owner. "They could've had them restrained better than they did" said Lipscomb.
Two other dogs were seized from the property because of illegal tethering.
