Five-year-old boy mauled by XL Bully as horror attack leaves him needing facial reconstruction

A SCOTS schoolboy needed to person facial reconstruction aft helium was mauled by an XL Bully successful a terrifying attack.

Five-year-old Teddy Kerr has been near scarred for beingness aft the beast turned connected the youngster and locked its jaw onto his cheek.

He was visiting household friends successful Paisley connected Sunday, November 3 with mum Chelsey, 32, and sisters, Brooke, 10 and Taylor, 9, erstwhile the canine turned connected him.

His distraught loved ones watched connected helplessly arsenic the mutt tore astatine the schoolboy's backmost and head.

Teddy was rushed to the Royal Alexandria Hospital, and helium received 100 stitches successful his look during implicit an hr of surgery.

The canine was destroyed aft the fearfulness onslaught astatine the Greenbank Drive property.

His gran Marion Hanratty told the Daily Record: "I thought I was going to suffer my grandson.

"The dog's teeth punctured done his backmost and the bites were inches distant from puncturing his lungs. If that had happened past who knows what the result would person been.

"He can’t adjacent grin close present due to the fact that helium has truthful galore stitches crossed his face.

"He was screaming the different time erstwhile helium got a glimpse of his look successful the mirror. He doesn’t privation to look at himself.

"We are each disquieted astir what the aboriginal volition clasp for him present and we conscionable anticipation and commune his scars volition slice implicit time. Teddy is fortunate to beryllium alive."

Marion told however her girl heard the girls screaming from the surviving country erstwhile the onslaught happened.

When Chelsey ran into the room, the canine had Teddy pinned to the floor, and erstwhile it fto spell determination was humor gushing retired of the youngster's face.

Marion added: "She didn’t adjacent telephone an ambulance she conscionable drove Teddy consecutive to hospital.

"The trauma team took him into resus and packed his look and backmost with bandages to halt the bleeding.

"They were disquieted the wound had punctured his lungs due to the fact that his oxygen levels kept dropping and helium had a coiled 3 and a fractional inches heavy connected his back but thankfully an X-ray ruled retired superior damage.

"Chelsey truly though helium was going to die. When she called maine to accidental what had happened I was hysterical too. I couldn’t judge it."

The gran said she wants a implicit prohibition of XL Bully dogs pursuing the onslaught arsenic they are a "dangerous breed".

Cops confirmed that a 41-year-old antheral was charged and reported the the Procurator Fiscal for offences nether the Dangerous Dog Act.

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: "Around 8.05pm connected Sunday, 3 November, 2024, constabulary received a study a 5-year-old kid had been attacked by a canine successful Greenbank Drive, Paisley.

"The kid was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital and the canine was seized.

"A 41-year-old antheral has been charged and reported to the Procurator Fiscal for offences nether the Dangerous Dog Act.

"The canine has been destroyed."