
Scary stories about pit bull attacks appear in news coverage almost as regularly as weather forecasts.What made this one so strange, though, was the mother’s claim that the dog allegedly anally raped her two-year-old son.The toddler is in guarded condition in Buffalo’s Women’s & Children’s Hospital after undergoing reconstructive surgery. The voice on Buffalo, New York’s WBEN news radio broadcast promised “bizarre and disturbing” news about “an attack on a small boy by a pit bull.” IMediaEthics finds two misquoted experts crying foul the hospital saying the child protection agency is involved an SPCA Executive Director reveals that mother has “relocated” and gives iMediaEthics advance notice of results of dog’s official behavioral analysis.

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