4-Year-Old Boy Bitten by Dog is Hospitalized

A four-year-old baby boy is hospitalized after he was bitten by a dog in the Lake Independence area.  Police say that on Sunday around three in the afternoon, Ellis Ortiz was playing in the yard when he went near the landlord’s dog, a potlicker mix, and it attacked him. The child’s screams alerted his stepfather Carlton Pitts who ran out, along with the landlord, and rescued the child. He is now in the hospital recovering.  ASP Alejandro Cowo shares more.

ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Belize City

“Well, unfortunately, the minor was playing outside of the yard and he went near the dog and the dog was leashed. And the dog attacked the minor and he sustained injuries to his forehead and his jaw. I know the minor is still presently admitted to the K.H.M.H.”

Alejandro Cowo

Reporter

“Police aren’t looking to serve the owners of the dog with any NIP, anything like that?”

ASP Alejandro Cowo

“The situation is that it is very difficult as this moment to levy any charges on the landlord or the proprietor at this moment, as I mentioned, the dog was tied up and it was the minor who was playing outside of the yard and he went to where the dog was.”