EAST TOLEDO -- Holly Leach was furious after her two-year-old son, Aaron, was bit in the face by a friend's pit bull at home.
"He was playing with the dog, and he took him by the face and threw him into the kitchen. They called police and made it out like it was my fault," Leach said.
The mother claims that police refused to do anything about the dog, so she launched an attack of her own.
Leach ran into the front door of the duplex where her son was mauled and scuffled with a woman she blames for the dog attack. Neighbors pulled Leach's daughter away in tears. Leach emerged after a minute, looking roughed up.
The pit bull was kept safely inside the home throughout the altercation.
The acting Lucas County Dog Warden, Karla Hamlin says police did not alert them after the two year old victim was attacked.
"I would think it would help for us to be called, so the report gets made, gets on our records. At this point, we have no complaints from this address," Hamlin said.
The Dog Warden's office launched an investigation into the mauling, after seeing NBC 24's video of the injury and the ensuing altercation. An adult in the home on Oak Street surrendered the dog without a struggle. The dog will be put down after ten days, unless the owners protest in court. Investigators say they don't expect the owner to face criminal charges in the attack, since the pit bull was confined to the home and licensed.
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