11-month-old girl recovering from dog attack in Montana Vista

An 11-month-old baby girl in Montana Vista was transported to the hospital after being bitten by a pit bull.

The child was taken to University Medical Center in stable condition after receiving 10 stitches on her head.

The incident occurred at about noon Tuesday at a trailer home in the 3700 block of Desert Meadows, near the intersection of Santiesteban.

A teenage mom was leaving her grandparents’ home with her nearly year-old child in her arms when their pit bulls got out of this gate.

During her struggle to get the dogs back in the yard, one of them bit the child on the head and leg.

As ABC-7 arrived at the home, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office animal services department was leaving with the pit bull that bit the child.

There was an initial report that sheriff’s deputies had shot the dog but that wasn’t the case.

The confusion may have arisen because the family’s other pit bull was struck and killed by a passing car during the confusion.

ABC-7 talked to the family when they left the trailer shortly afterward.

“It was an accident that happened but right now we can’t talk because we gotta go right now,” the dog’s owner told ABC-7 as she got into a car.

The aunt of the baby said she did not know how the baby was doing.

A neighbor who did not want to speak on camera said she was bitten on the foot by one of the dogs while trying to help catch them. Another neighbor, who did not want his face shown, told ABC-7 he’s had problems with the dogs before.

“One night, I called the cops because the dog was chasing the two …,” the neighbor said. “I got my knife, then I chased the dog and the dog got in the middle of the street. And then I put the two girls inside my house. When the cops get here the dog go inside the yard and they didn’t do nothing.”

The man added that he’s glad the dogs are gone.

A neighbor told ABC-7 that the family actually had three pit bulls. The whereabouts of the third dog is unknown.