Cork coroner urges animal owners to be cautious after three-month-old baby killed in dog attack

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The Cork coroner told the inquest that dogs can be unpredictable and can cause serious harm.

THE CORONER AT the inquest into the death of a three-month-old baby who was killed by a dog has urged animal owners with young children to exercise extreme caution.

During the course of the evening Emily went to check on her six year old son Jayden who was also visiting the property and had gone to bed.. She said she also popped in to the room where Mia had been put to sleep in her Moses basket. “Mia was wearing a vest and a a babygro when I found her. I can’t remember seeing any tears or rips on her clothes. I just remember the blood on her head and on the floor.

“I had never heard her scream like that before. I went flying up the stairs. When I got upstairs I could Emily on the landing. Emily was holding my baby, my Mia in her arms,” Ella said. Ms O’Connell said that Ella and her son Rhys had got engaged on New Year’s Eve 2020 with the couple having lived with her and her husband Barry for two and a half years. She had gone to her work in a nursing home and arrived home at around nine o clock on the night that Mia died.

Poignantly, Sgt Thomas Gahan, who led the investigation in to the death, said that little Mia had received a garda escort as she was transported by ambulance to Cork University Hospital where she passed away from her injuries just hours after the attack. He offered his condolences to the family following their appalling tragedy and thanked gardai for their thorough investigation having been called to a “harrowing” situation. He also moved to reassure the family that Mia would not have suffered in her final moments.

“The pain is unbearable. I think it will never go away. Our hearts are broken forever. We will never get her back. It is still like a nightmare. Full of smiles and full of giggles and she was taken away from us so abruptly and so tragically.”

 

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