Baby pulled from basket and mauled to death by rescue dog leaving family 'broken forever'
dailyrecord.co.ukThe family of a baby girl pulled from her Moses basket and killed by a dog said their "hearts are broken forever".Mia O'Connell was killed at four months old by the terrier Dachshund cross who was found standing alongside the baby with blood on its mouth, an inquest heard.Parents Ella Wood and her partner Rhys O'Connell had got engaged the previous New Year's Eve and Mia was born in February 2021, when she had to remain in hospital for over two weeks because after she was born as she was premature and weighed just 4lbs 9 oz.Cork Coroner's Court heard that the couple, from Waterford, Ireland, were deeply in love and "ecstatic" at the birth of Mia.In a statement read out at Cork Coroner's Court, Ella said that Mia was "a good little baby" who was in a routine of being bottle fed every four hours or so.
She not only had the love of her parents but was also adored by her grandparents with whom she also lived.Ella's sister, Emily, was visiting the house in Saint Mochua's Terrace in Clashmore on June 6, 2021 when the tragedy unfolded.
Mia was teething and had been been put to bed.During the course of the evening Emily went to check on her six year old son Jayden who was also visiting the property and had gone to bed.
She said she also popped in to the room where Mia had been put to sleep in her Moses basket.Emily was shocked to find the family rescue dog 'Red', who was a terrier Dachshund cross, standing over the baby who was lying on the bedroom floor."I could see Mia on the ground in the middle of the room, between the bed and the Moses basket.
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