Three young children killed in three weeks due to Dog Attacks



THREE YOUNG CHILDREN KILLED IN THREE WEEKS DUE TO DOG ATTACKS


CAPE TOWN - Faith Hendricks, 18 months old, was killed in her parents’ yard by the family pit bull in Mount Pleasant,  South Africa, a suburb of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape on 1 September 2016.

Marchen Hoffman, age 6, was killed six days earlier at a swimming hole in Stellenbosch by two dogs believed to have been pit bulls who jumped over a neighbor’s fence.

The Hendricks and Hoffman deaths followed the fatal dog attack of Peter Frans (age 4) on 17 August 2016 in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape.


The three fatal dog attacks in three weeks, all on small children, highlighted that South Africa appears to now have the highest rate of dog attack deaths in the world relative to population, nearly twice the rate of the United States,  the distant runner-up.


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