New Jersey pre-schooler mauled by family’s pit bull; tore her scalp
Janaya Everett was attacked by a mixed reed of Pit Bulls at her grandmother’s home in West Orange, New Jersey, on Saturday, May 14. “The baby was lying on the floor bloody with her scalp all messed up, and just a mess… horrible, horrible thing,” Dwyane Harper tells media. Harper, the boyfriend of Janaya’s grandmother, was outside working on a car when he heard the toddler’s gut wrenching wails.
The family says the dogs normally reside in the basement and apparently snuck upstairs into the grandmother’s bedroom.
She was motionless when a witness tried to help. When EMT arrived, they did not wait for a stretcher. They carried Everett out of their house in their arms. They transported her to University Hospital in Newark where they performed emergency surgery.
Both dogs were removed from the home, and Harper says they will most likely be euthanized.
According to dogsbite.org, in the 11-year period of 2005 through 2015, canines killed 360 Americans. Pit Bulls contributed to 64 percent (232) of these deaths. Combined, Pit Bulls and Rottweilers contributed to 76 percent of the total recorded deaths.
Together, Pit Bulls (28) and Rottweilers (3), the second most lethal dog breed, accounted for 91 percent of the total recorded deaths in 2015.
In the year of 2015, the combination of Pit Bulls (28), their close cousins, American bulldogs (2), and Rottweilers (3) contributed to 97 percent (33) of all dog bite-related fatalities.
In 2015, nearly one third, 32 percent (11), of all dog bite fatality victims were either visiting or living temporarily with the dog’s owner when the fatal attack occurred. Children ages nine years and younger accounted for 82 percent (9) of these deaths.
Fifty percent (17) of all fatalities in 2015 involved more than one dog; 15% (5) involved a pack attack of four or more dogs; 21% (7) involved breeding on the dog owner’s property either actively or in the recent past and 6% (2) involved tethered dogs.
Everett is expected to make a full recovery.
Pit bulls kills more than all other breeds COMBINED. There is no more murderous dog than the pit bull fighting dog.
These people can no longer voice their opinion on the pit bull problem.
December 2014
Portage, IN Edward L. Cahill, 40, Fatal pit bull attack (Christmas Day)
Corpus Christi, TX Rita Woodard, 64 Fatal pit bull attack
November 2014
Robeson County, NC Alemeaner Dial, 83 Fatal pit bull attack
October 2014
Stanislaus County, CA Juan Fernandez, 54 Fatal pit bull attack
September 2014
Sharp County, AR Alice Payne, 75 Fatal pit bull attack
Benton County, MS David Glass Sr., 51 Fatal pit bull attack
August 2014
Miami-Dade County, FL Javon Dade Jr., 4 Fatal pit bull attack
St. Charles County, MO Deriah Solem, < 2 Fatal pit bull attack
Levy County, FL Joel Chirieleison, 6 Fatal pit bull attack
Butler County, OH Cindy Whisman, 59 Fatal pit bull attack
July 2014
Montgomery County, OH Johnathan Quarles, Jr., < 1 Fatal pit bull attack
Hillsborough County, FL Logan Sheppard, 4 Fatal pit bull attack
May 2014
New Haven County, CT Rita Pepe, 93 Fatal pit bull attack
Kent County, DE Kasii Haith, 4 Fatal pit bull attack
Lee County, AL Katie Morrison, 20 Fatal pit bull attack
April 2014
Highlands County, FL Jessica Norman, 33 Fatal pit bull attack
Bexar County, TX Petra Aguirre, 83 Fatal pit bull attack
St. Clair County, AL John Harvard, 5 Fatal pit bull attack
March 2014
Kaufman County, TX Dorothy Hamilton, 85 Fatal pit bull attack
Holmes County, MS Christopher Malone, 3 Fatal pit bull attack
Terrebonne Parish, LA Mia DeRouen, 4 Fatal pit bull attack
Maricopa County, AZ Nancy Newberry, 77 Fatal pit bull attack
February 2014
Guilford County, NC Braelynn Coulter, 3 Fatal pit bull attack
Bell County, TX Je'vaeh Mayes, 2 Fatal pit bull attack
January 2014
McLean County, IL Kara Hartrich, 4 Fatal pit bull attack
Comal County, TX Betty Clark, 75 Fatal pit bull attack
Harris County, TX Christina Bell, 43 Fatal pit bull attack
I had a friend who got a pit bull. He is no longer a friend.
Full recovery? Doubtful in the fullest sense of the word. She will have scars, physically and mentally. How many more children will be sacrificed at the altar of the Pit Bull?
Thank you for that. Physical injuries may heal but the emotional scars will be with her for a lifetime. Our children are not food or play toys, I will not go near them. I have relatives who let their children and grands play near these dogs and I cringe every time they share these pictures wondering if it will always be okay. Shaking my head, praying for this child who will never be the same. Why was the boyfriend out working on the car and the child was left in the house. That’s even more scary.
Sit back and get ready for the onslaught of people who will try to convince us that pit bulls were the original nanny dogs and how they are some of the sweetest dogs and how the problem is with the owner and not the dog, blah blah blah. To hell with all of that. I will never take a chance with one of these dogs around my kids.
Yeah why take the chance, there are hundreds of less aggressive dog breeds. I find that the average Pit Bull owner is usually some want to be tough guy, similar to people that have a house full of guns.
I have a 3 year old and wouldn’t leave him unattended for 3 seconds, much less with an animal in the room. Children can get into a hundred things in a short amount of time.
No one should have a dog like the one that mauled this poor child in their home or near their children. Unfortunately, we all have to worry about some neighbor pit bull, Am. Staff, American Bulldog, etc., escaping and coming into our own yards and attacking our own children now as well. There are also a ton of cases where parents were right there and the bull dog attacked and killed anyway.
Get a battery powered chainsaw and keep it charged and handy. It’ll help protect you and yours.
It’s kinder to quickly kill attacking bully dogs than to have them wait months in a cold cell or be “rehomed” to a dog fighter.
2015 Dog Bite Related Fatalities in the U.S.
Updated after each fatality following fact finding research
36 Dog Bite Related Fatality
by Breed.
28 by Pit Bull/Pit Bull Mix
2 by Rottweiler
1 by Golden/mixed breed
1 by American bulldog, Rhodesian Ridgeback, Labrador mix
4 Unknown/Pending
By Age :
14 Children
22 Adult
By State :
NM – 1 death
MD – 1 death
FL – 3 death
IA – 1 death
AR – 1 death
PA – 1 death
W. VA – 2 death
TX – 5 death
SD – 1 death
AR – 1 death
GA – 1 death
NV – 1 death
IL – 1 death
OK – 3 death
NC – 2 death
OH – 1 death
SC – 1 death
AL – 1 death
CA – 3 death
NY – 2 death
TN – 1 death
MI – 2 death
Names and ages of the deceased:
Unidentified Native American – about 40 y,o. – Gallup, NM – Pack of Feral Dogs [1.2.15]
Eugene W. Smith – 87- Frederick, MD – 1 Pit Bull [1.7.15]
Declin Moss – 18 months – Brooksville, FL – 2 Pit Bulls [1.19.15]
Malaki Mildward – 7yrs old – College Springs, IA – 2 Pit Bull/Bull Dog Mix [1.22.15]
Fredrick Crutchfield – 63 yrs old – Johnson county, AR – Pit Bull [ 2.4.15]
TayLynn DeVaughn – 2 yrs old – Pittsburgh, PA – Pit Bull [2.22.15]
Roy Higgenbotham – 62 yrs old – WHEELING, W.Va. – Pit Bull [3.8.15]
Betty Wood – 78 yrs old – SULPHUR SPRINGS, TX – Rottweiler [3.12.15]
Julia Charging Whirlwind – 49 yrs old – WHITE RIVER, SD – Pending [3.14.15]
Detrick Johnson – 36 yrs old – JEFFERSON COUNTY, AR – 7 Pit Bulls [3.21.15]
Neta Lee Adams – 81 yrs old – WASHINGTON, GA – Pending [3.31.15]
Kenneth Ford – 79 yrs old – NYE COUNTY, NV – Pit Bulls [4.14.15]
Brayden Wilson – 2 months old – Dallas, TX – Pit Bull [4.19.15]
Gaege Anthony Ramirez – 7 yrs old – NEW BRAUNFELS, TX – Pending [5.2.15]
James W. Nevils III – 5 yrs old – Chicago, IL – Pit Bull – [5.25.15]
Jordon Tyson Collins – 3 yrs old – Lawton, OK – Pit Bull – [6.28.15]
Norberto Legarda – 83 yrs old – Pecos, TX – Pit Bulls – [7.2.15]
Joshua Phillip Strother – 6 yrs old – Hendersonville, NC – Pit Bull – [7.7.15]
Annie L. Williams – 71 yrs old – Shaker Heights, OH – Pit Bull – [7.12.15]
Carolyn Lamp – 67 yrs old – COWETA, Ok – 3 Pit Bull/1 Rottweiler – [7.24.15]
Porsche Nicole Cartee – 25 yrs old – SPARTANBURG, SC – Pit Bull – [8.22.15]
Cathy Wheatcraft – 48 yrs old – DAVIE COUNTY, N.C. – Pit Bull – [8.24.15]
Barbara McCormick – 65 yrs old – Autauga County , AL – Golden/Mix – [8.2.15]
Emilio Rios Sr – 65 yrs old – Riverside County, CA. Pit Bulls – [8.8.15]
Carmen Reigada – 91 yrs old – Miami, FL. – American bulldog,Rhodesian Ridgeback, Labrador mix – [9.22.15]
Lamarkus Hakeem Hicks – 2 yrs old – Martinsburg, WV – Pit Bull – [9.28.15]
Edgar Brown – 60 yrs old – OKLAHOMA CITY, OK. – Pit Bulls – [10.16.15]
Tanner Smith – 5 yrs old – Vidor, TX – Pit Bulls – [10.18.15]
Amiyah Dunston – 9 yrs old – Elmont, NY – Pit Bull – [11.8.15]
Anthony Riggs – 57 yrs old – Madison County ,TN – Rottweiler – [11.12.15]
Carter Hartle – 11 months old – MARSHALL, NY – Pit Bull – [11.15.15]
Xavier Strickland – 4 yrs old – Detroit, MI – Pit Bulls – [12.2.15]
Rebecca Lillian-Kay Hardy – 22 yrs old – Port Huron, MI – Pit Bull, Husky-mix[12.3.15]
Maria Torres – 57 yrs old – Gridley, CA – Pit Bulls – [12.16.15]
Joan Ashman – 83 yrs old – CHULA VISTA, Calif. – Pit Bull – [12.18.15]
Nyjah Espinosa – 2 yrs old – Miami-Dade, Fl – Pit Bull – [12.20.15]
On average in 2015 someone was killed by a pit bull every 13 days. Some of these pit bull attacks were from the family dog that was well trained and had never shown signs of aggression before. The only common in these severe and often fatal attacks is not abuse or lack of training, it is breed. Choose the breed of dog you trust the lives of your loved ones with wisely.
We have an American Staffordshire Terrier, which is part of the pit bull family since he was 6 weeks old. Everybody knows that he’s part of our family, but we are very cautious with him. When we have visitors, he’s locked into his kennel, even if he’s not displaying any type of aggression, regardless of who it is. That’s just not a chance that we’re willing to take. He’s very protective of me, so I don’t even take him for walks because I don’t want to place the lives of others in danger. I pray that this child makes a full recovery, mentally and physically.
Thank you for trying to keep your dog and others safe.
Remember that all “good” game insane pit bulls mature to attack unprovoked and prolonged.
Hopefully, your pit will never become be a “good” pit bull, but since good pits don’t need a reason and don’t give warning, you won’t know until it happens, which might not be for years.
Normal dogs need to be angry or frightened to attack. Good pits attack with no external reason, on internal mutant man-made instinct.
Keep a choker chain on him at all times so you can choke him off a victim.