Texas babysitter’s dogs attack toddler and teenager left alone in her care: Sheriff

A babysitter successful Texas has been arrested and charged with felony wounded to a kid aft she reportedly near a toddler and a teen successful her attraction alone, and past the children were attacked by the caregiver’s dogs.

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said a 1-year-old lad and 13-year-old miss were being cared for by Heather Rodriguez, 36, successful the Central Texas municipality of Converse. Salazar said a preliminary investigation led them to judge Rodriguez near the children unsocial with her 4 XL American bullies.

Salazar said that Rodriguez near the location for chartless reasons and near the children successful a bedroom, distant from the dogs since they were "known to origin damage."

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A babysitter's XL American bullies allegedly attacked a toddler and teen near successful her care. (Brian Lawless/PA Images via Getty Images)

The dogs yet broke into the chamber by destroying a connecting bath doorway that they’d already antecedently damaged, Salazar said.

Salazar said the dogs began biting the toddler erstwhile they got into the room.

"The 13-year-old was capable to support power of the baby, but astatine this point, and what's being described to me, it was astir a tug of warfare for the babe betwixt astatine slightest 1 of the dogs and the small girl," the sheriff said.

The further dogs joined the fray, and the teenage miss spent "several minutes trying to combat them off," Salazar said.

"At a definite point, she had to interruption distant and physically near the babe down successful the bathroom," the sheriff said. (She was) being attacked portion she went to spell get her compartment telephone to telephone for help."

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A toddler and teen were allegedly near unsocial by their babysitter an attacked by her dogs. These are the stairs wrong the location of babysitter Heather Rodriguez. (Bexar County Sheriff's Office)

The miss called 911, safely got the toddler into different country and barricaded themselves successful there. She had to propulsion against the doorway to forestall the dogs from compromising that entrance.

Deputies arrived and took power of the scene, which included rendering archetypal assistance to the 1-year-old kid earlier taking him to the hospital.

"From what we recognize astir the babe close now, he's decidedly successful captious condition," Salazar said Monday astatine a quality conference, according to USA Today. "I've really seen immoderate pictures of the babe from our assemblage camera video... it's heartbreaking to spot anybody successful that condition."

Salazar said the babe sustained "pretty terrible caput injuries" and that helium couldn’t respire usually aft harm to his pharynx and airway.

The sheriff said the children’s parents were unaware that Rodriguez had "problematic" dogs and that helium believed "they would not person fto (Rodriguez) attraction for their babe the mode that they did had they known that these dogs were unsafe."

He added that the teenage girl’s speedy actions apt prevented a concern that could person turned retired overmuch worse than it is.

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A toddler and teen were allegedly near unsocial by their babysitter an attacked by her dogs. This is harm wrong the location of babysitter Heather Rodriguez. (Bexar County Sheriff's Office)

"I've got to beryllium honest, the 13-year-old successful this instance, I'm considering her a hero," Salazar said. "I deliberation her actions led to the babe not being mauled adjacent much seriously, oregon adjacent killed arsenic a effect of this savage canine attack."

Child Protective Services has been called to show the payment of some children, peculiarly for the carnal well-being of the toddler and the intelligence well-being of the teenager.

Rodriguez, successful summation to her felony injury to a kid charge, has besides been cited for letting her dogs tally freely without a leash. The sheriff said it’s wide that 2 of the dogs participated successful the attack, but possibly each of them were involved.

"Obviously, for me, immoderate canine that took portion successful it needs to beryllium enactment down," Salazar said. "As heartbreaking arsenic that sounds, the beingness of a small babe is overmuch much important."

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Salazar said Rodriguez was much acrophobic astir her dogs being taken distant than the information 2 children successful her attraction were attacked and injured by them. The dogs are present with Bexar County Animal Control, which volition find what happens to them.

"If we're capable to find retired that 1 of the dogs, oregon respective of the dogs were not responsible, past fine," Salazar said. "Perhaps those tin spell back, but (Rodriguez) seemed to beryllium much acrophobic with what was going connected with those dogs than with the information that her inaction (and) her omissions astir caused the decease of a baby."