Her insurance company is refusing to pay for her feeding tube and formula -- $500 a month. How can this be!

https://www.facebook.com/victoriasvictories

Victoria's Story for all the new supporters to the page:

In April 2014 while visiting with her grandfather Victoria was the victim of a pit bull attack. The 3 dogs involved where put down immediately. Victoria had bites all over her body but the most damage was to her sweet little face. She had a broken upper and lower jaw, broken nose, cheek bones and right eye socket. She lost her right eye completely and the ability to move the right side of her face. They have reconstructed her bottom jaw but cant do anymore surgeries until she grows new bone in her face due to the fact that the broken pieces are to small to piece together. She is currently at home with a feeding tube, but doing amazing. She has already graduated from physical therapy but continues to see a speech and swallow therapist weekly. Victoria's family is struggling financially due to the fact that the insurance company is refusing to pay for many of her medicines and anything to do with her feeding tube or formula which is $550 a month. Please continue to pray for Victoria and for God to make a way financially. Thanks for the support! Click to Donate: http://www.gofundme.com/8q8yww #gofundme

I will stand up and cheer!

and I can't think of a better (or is that worst) example then this poor girl.

Me too.

I don't think her face looks scary.

I'm following her Facebook page, and hoping and praying that all will be well with this beautiful little girl.

Any witnesses? Any evidence that this took place?

I would hope that people would know better, but some people are sooooooooooo stupid/

They are obviously in a horrible position after being accused of doing it to the child.
Yet where is the evidence any of it took place?

has been refusing to pay the $500 a month for her feeding tube and food.

if kids with diabetes and speech impediments get it (and they do) then a feeding tube should qualify

Plaintiff, they would settle rather than face a jury!

There is no way that an insurance company would let this case get to a jury

Is there any evidence this took place, except the claim by the grandma?
KFC says their internal investigation can't verify this incident took place.

EVEN if friends suggest it - I will refuse to go and pick somewhere else to eat. I cannot do anything about the unfair way this sweet little girl was treated at the KFC...but I DAM WELL SURE can make sure to tell my friends to boycott the place!

To whoever said they were disturbed by the girls appearance at the KFC...I hear they are saving you a front row seat to Hell.

Most other KFC franchisees would never do such a thing.

TO treat a 3 year old that way is criminal in my book. She doesn't even understand all the dynamics involved, but she does understand being ostracized and that just infuriates me to no end! 3 year olds should be happy and playing with toys and friends...NOT worrying about how they look to the outside world.

IF I read the KFC goes out of it's way to make things right, then I will change my mind. I can only reply with my wallet.

and found this:

I understand the knee-jerk reaction many are expressing to the unfortunate events that happened in one of the stores here. I too initially thought "boycott KFC." But then I remembered something- since I'm a paramedic. If you look at the entrance to the new Pediatric Emergency Room at UMMC - where this little girl was certainly treated - it reads "Colonel Harland Sanders" on the outside. Her life-saving treatment was partly made possible by a very generous donation from Colonel Sanders family to construct the new Peds ER. We all have black sheep in our family and hope others don't judge us by their actions. My hopes are that KFC Corporate will stick to their word and investigate and issue corrective action along with a public statement of the resolution so we all know they took care of things.

This is the only way I know how to protest such behavior, with my wallet. I am just sick to my stomach, thinking about that poor little girl already suffering from anxiety only adults should know! AT 3 years old! Adults can be unbelievably cruel, but this is about the worst thing I've ever read.

but I'm sure the outcome of this will leave whichever employees did this looking for new employment.

No company wants this kind of negative publicity.

"3 year old mauling survivor, ejected from a KFC for being too hideous to look at." It just shocks me, to this day, when people act that ugly toward a child.

Though that's not to say any perceived connection won't figure into the KFC's PR damage control plans.

they're not like this at ALL

what the dogs started.

Like the little girl hasn't been through enough, now we have to hurt her feelings, too.

People suck.

It's times like this I wished I believed in karma.

Even if reconstructive/cosmetic surgery leaves no visible scars that little girl will worry about how she looks for the rest of her life.

How awful for her and her family.

long shot but I figured if anyone can help this little girl feel better about herself, he can.

Hope he ( Mr. Martinez) is moved to help!! Please let me know if he responds to you.

they are wrong for turning her away in any case. but it adds to her own pain. having to go through and deal with the attack and then being bullied by ignorant scum for what it left her with.

I think Popeyes beats them by a longshot. I have probably had KFC 4 times in my life with the last 3 either being outvoted by a group or because I was very hungry and there were few options.

This appears I to be a case of a cold hearted and stupid manager or assistant mgr. making a very bad judgement call. The owner of this location is going to be very upset about this negative publicity. The person who kicked her out might be looking for a new job or demotion.

Get the fuck out of my store.

it's only fair to have the company reaction, and it sounds appropriate thus far

Now fire the employee and give a good beating to the "disrupted" customers.

As for the dogs?

Fuck them and their owner, too.

Too many things are wrong in this sad story.

and then mauled her. WTF!? That worries me.

and if she happened to be squealing like the toddler at my neighborhood library today, a dog would certainly be alarmed.

otherwise why would they attack. Many pit bulls are loving dogs when raised in loving homes.

The dogs rip down the back door and nobody heard it going on?

some serious neglect here. I believe grandparents were responsible at the time (?) Even a sadly vicious "pit bull" left loose would hardly attack through a screen door with little more than sight or voice provocation.

To provoke or get through a screen door. In fact I was attacked by a pit bull on my bike last year. It ambushed me and when it missed biting me it tried to knock me to the ground.

They have been bred to be completely submissive to their handlers.

If the dogs did attack their owners they'd be out of business, not to mention quite possibly dead.

And the world would be a better place without them.

a pack is way more dangerous than one dog - different dynamic - regardless of the breed

sheep and one of the fairly harmless neighborhood dogs attacked them with a couple of other abandoned dogs in a pack. Still, it's hard to believe that even a pack of three would attack (even through a screen door). This was not a case of an infant and dingoes.

are owned by assholes, hence pent-up animosity .

But you can train around it and hide it. I have trained many dogs and have played the trial games. Mr Milan knows that loving rhe dog is often the problem not the solution.

wifes attempts at training .

but when you have a dog with immense physical attributes and a high prey drive, it is disaster waiting to happen. I have three such dogs now. They have a predisposition to meet the unknown or the unwelcome with aggression. They were bred for it. It is why they excel at hunting, tracking, and retrieving. High prey drives and high fight drives.

It is not bad, but it must be channeled appropriately and there can not be compromises. I truly believe dogs can reason, and do it quite well. What they are not capable of is abstract thought. In other words, they do not understand that they can get on the bed because they cut their pad, but other times they cannot. They understand the bed is either okay to sleep on or not okay to sleep on.

I do agree that the problem with most pitbulls is the owners; however, most of the people who make that statement do not realize what being a responsible owner of a large and aggressive dog really looks like. You cannot be lovey-dovey with them and make it go away, but I am afraid that 95% of the people who make that statement believe that. In fact, with large aggressive dogs, affection MUST be earned and not just metted out randomly, or they tend to get the wrong idea real fast. Its not such a big deal with a little Cavalier Spaniel or a Maltese.

"Donald Mullins' dogs ripped open the back door and jumped on the girl."

"She's got a lot of surgeries to go through and she won't even look in the mirror anymore," said Victoria's grandmother, Kelly Mullins."




Poor little baby girl.

scars and all. What a horrid experience for her. I can only pray for Karma.

that throws the mean-ass body checks when you need him. My granddaughter lives with her red-neck step father who loves pit bulls and I worry about her every day. The only time I went to KFC I had a gull bladder attack that night.

Unfortunately, her grandfather is a big one. Dogs are not worth risking the kids.

Hope no one ever eats at that particular outlet again. That's unconscionable.

goes viral. The POS that did this should not have a job by the end of the week. I am so furious I can barely type.

I think she is an adorable 3-year old with a wonderful smile and a sunny disposition. I'll never understand how people can be so horrible.

husband of the grandmother.

. . .

Donald Mullins, who is Kelly Mullins' ex-husband, shot and killed two of the dogs that attacked Victoria. The third dog was euthanized. Donald Mullins and his girlfriend, Rita Tompkins, were arrested after the attack on child endangerment charges.

More than $500 a month in expenses they won't pay.

https://www.facebook.com/victoriasvictories

Does it have a name?

assholes, I believe the managers of this KFC also were in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

One of the many reasons the disability community pushed for an ADA was because so many people with disabilities had the experience of being kicked out of or prevented from entering restaurants, hotels, motels, and other public places because someone thought they were "unsightly" or might "disturb" the other customers. Because, you know, people who use wheelchairs, or people who even--heaven forfend!--drool, or have facial differences, are just too god awful to allow out in public.

This sort of attitude needs to be buried for good. It's especially vicious to subject a child to such prejudice.

There's nothing so genuinely ugly as a bigot.

Who would do that to a little girl.

it makes me so friggin' SAD.

would do something like that? They walk among us don't they.

HARRISVILLE, Miss.–It’s another pit bull attack on a Mississippi child, and this time the four-year-old girl victim is critical, with injuries to her face and body. Her grandfather and his girlfriend were locked up after the attack.

The girl was playing inside her granddad’s trailer when the pit bulls came inside the house and dragged her into the backyard, said Simpson County Sheriff Kenneth Lewis. That’s where the girl was mauled.

The grandfather, Donald Mullins, was able to shoot two of the three dogs involved in the attack. The third one got away.

Once the little girl was on the way to the hospital, Mullins and his girlfriend, Rita Tompkins, were arrested and charged with child endangerment. Mullins was also wounded when he tried to stop the dogs.The sheriff told media that Mullins was keeping a total of 10 dogs on his land and they were all taken and put in the custody of the Miss. Animal Rescue League.

- See more at: http://www.newsms.fm/another-pit-bull-attack-mississippi-child/#sthash.EbXRU17o.dpuf

It takes work to properly train and exercise one dog, there would be way too many short cuts with 10. Mine is a Border Collie so I admit she takes a bit more time than some other breeds. But Pitties are fairly active dogs also, they would need mental and physical stimulation to get their needs met.

we have a 2 y/o Carolina dog who's like a dingo (they are dingo's actually - American pariah ferals) crossed with a squirrel and she's a handful.

Packs are whole different and complex dynamic. Not particularly safe for an amateur to manage.

I often describe her as behaving like a 50 pound squirrel...she's pure Carolina Dog

on only the best to train for show. These are not huge operations at any given time. Unfortunately "puppy mills," breeding popular breeds, have sprung up in recent decades. They aren't concerned with quality and disposition, and usually sell to pet stores. Check out area breeders before you buy from a pet shop and you'll find better quality puppies at fair prices for "pet quality." Anyone who has a ten or more adult dogs (especially if different breeds, or designated "pit bulls&quot are suspect, to be generous. Legitimate breeders only have large numbers of dogs when litters of puppies are born.

I and most serious dog people avoid AKC dogs. FCI are preferred registries for many pro handlers.

Hey, I have no love for KFC but NO big corporation will put up with this.

than the people asking her to leave.

could any human being do that?

How could anybody let that happen?

Unfathomable.

They just told us, they said, 'We have to ask you to leave because her face is disrupting our customers.' (Victoria) understood exactly what they said."

Read more: http://www.wapt.com/news/central-mississippi/girl-scarred-by-pit-bull-attack-reportedly-asked-to-leave-restaurant/26477388#ixzz34ZFtDNJS

KFC officials sent an email Friday to 16 WAPT News in response to the incident.

"KFC launched an investigation as soon as we were made aware of this report. We take this very seriously, as we have zero tolerance for any kind of hurtful or disrespectful actions toward our guests. Our investigation is ongoing, but we have been in touch with the family and are committed to doing something appropriate for this beautiful little girl and her family. We will also work with the franchisee to take appropriate action at the restaurant once the specifics of the incident are determined," said KFC spokesman Rick Maynard.

Read more: http://www.wapt.com/news/central-mississippi/girl-scarred-by-pit-bull-attack-reportedly-asked-to-leave-restaurant/26477388#ixzz34ZG9b4T8

has been victimized twice. I am constantly amazed by the cruelty of some people.

by her face. I hope like hell she doesn't remember this, better yet, I hope the idiot who asked them to leave didn't do it in front of her.

the person thats scarred isNOT the problem , the people that run the restaurant and its customers, are scarred with their prehistoric superstitions , and heartless attitudes . Why is the South always so far behind modern times mentally ?

What a sorry example to set .

posted, I'm sorry. If someone finds that insurance company that is not paying this girl's medical bills, please contact me.

https://funds.gofundme.com/index.php?route=donate2/donate&url=8q8yww

mauled by a pit bull. I wish her much happiness in her life.

It's even worse to hear, but not surprising, that they are being screwed by the insurance company as well. How sad that tragedy builds on top of tragedy.

"Disrupting the customers" equals some sanctimommy or daddy complaining because her badly raised precious snowflakes said, Ewww. I have seen this so many times. The underpaid employees wouldn't do this on their own, though it was an incredibly bad call. A long time ago, I worked at my friend's pumpkin farm in October. One of these crazy parents argued with me that I should tell some children to leave because they were "scaring" her children. I had been watching, and they were playing and being happy just like the rest of the kids. It finally came out that she was mad they were in the background of her 5000 pictures. She basically wanted the entire patch to herself to take her holiday postcards. She also accused them of "spreading disease." When I asked how on earth she knew that, she made a racist remark. At that point, I professionally but loudly asked her to leave. I knew I wouldn't be fired and it wasn't a job that paid my rent or food. But who knows about the people in a low wage restaurant like KFC? Customers bully all the time and one just ends up giving into their demands rather than risking your job.

thankfully these dogs will not do this again . . . and the owners were arrested

How the girl received her injuries are immaterial to the prejudice she's suffered at the hands of KFC. You what to use this thread as a forum to spread your own special brand of hatred & stupidity. That's not going to happen without someone defending the truth here.

notice I did not need to resort to personal attacks like "hatred and stupidity"

If she had been turned away after being in a car accident, would you have been able to muster up enough humanity to care about her then? Somehow I don't think so.

And calling a snake a snake isn't a "personal attack" on the snake.

this little girl

you still defend them - and attack those who do nothing but present the DAILY news and fact about these vicious animals

the best you can do is attack the messenger . . . . sad

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The sick people are those who see an isolated tragedy & wish to commit genocide because of it.

A Holland Township woman is recovering from dog bites and abrasions after she was attacked in her own backyard by two wandering pit bulls.

Family members identified the victim as Rhonda Schroeder, 61.

Schroeder was in the backyard of her Paw Paw Street home around 9 a.m. Friday when the two pit bulls attacked a smaller dog that belongs to a family friend.

Schroeder’s next-door neighbor, Joe Winters, ran to help Schroeder. He said she was trying to protect the smaller dog with her own body, but the larger put bulls were relentless.

Winters described grabbing the bigger of the two pit bulls around the neck, and punching it as hard as he could as Schroeder kept trying to fend off the second pit bull.

http://woodtv.com/2014/06/13/woman-reportedly-attacked-by-dog/

and yet you call those who simply are messengers "sick" . . . . there is something sad in that

Either against a little girl at KFC, or against 18 million innocent dogs & their humans.

The OP has nothing to do with Pit Bulls.

they bring tragedy to famiies DAILY!!!!!

Your priorities are messed up.

I am not the one more interested in shifting blame/focus from the vicious attack by the dogs to KFC

sort of takes the blame and focus off where it really belongs . . . on the perpetrator of this vicious attack

don't rip peoples' faces off every day! *Derp* It's all fun and games till the dingo takes the baby.

I've given up on some of these idiots. Glad you haven't. Ignorant and small-minded, wielding misinformation on the internet.

To you she's just a pawn to be abused, exploited when it suits you & then forgotten.

What really happens daily is that people with disabilities (not just facial scars) are discriminated against. That's why we have the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the reason KFC corporate responded as they did.

No matter how many lies you want to spew, and no matter how badly you want to twist the facts, and no matter how much you want to put your Palinesque stupidity on display, this story has nothing to do with Pit Bulls.

of course it has to do with pit bulls . . . these animals are vicious . . . and attacks occur DAILY

DAILY

and the best you can do is attack me . . . well have at it

nothing can change the facts surrounding the vicious attack this little girl had to endure . . . and the memory of that will last in her forever

Thanks for your concern . . . but that little girl remains scarred

She's in a medically induced coma.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/crime/2014/06/04/pit-bull-attack/9980569/

I've been thinking of her every day but know even if she lives her life will never be the same.

Tell me that's not what they're saying.

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Unfortunately, there's a small but vocal cadre of dog haters on DU who think the only solution to stop untrained, unsocialized or abused dogs from hurting people is to kill all every dog everywhere. And forget about doing anything the people who abuse them.

Supporters of Breed Specific Legislation against Pit Bulls are a lot like Nazis that way.

And note that they still haven't expressed any sympathy for the little girl.