Child dead after falling into African wild dog exhibit at Pittsburgh Zoo
PITTSBURGH, PA.—A young boy visiting the Pittsburgh zoo with his mother and friends was killed Sunday when he fell off a deck into an exhibit that’s home to a pack of African painted dogs, who pounced on the boy and mauled him, zoo officials said.
It’s not clear whether he died from the fall or the attack, said Barbara Baker, president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium.
When the boy fell, other visitors immediately told staff members, who responded along with Pittsburgh police. Zookeepers called off the dogs, and seven of them immediately went to a back building. Three more eventually were drawn away from the boy, but the last dog wouldn’t come into the building, and police had to shoot him, Baker said.
“It’s clear that the dogs did attack the child, but whether he died of the attack or the fall has yet to be determined,” Baker said. ..............(more)
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and it also says that people started screaming for help after they saw him in the pen.
If the mother was holding him up, she would have seen him fall off the fencing and presumably crawling on the mesh covering over the exhibit and been screaming for help before he was in the exhibit.
It's more and more looking like serious negligence on her part. 
That poor child...and the dog.
