Horrifying moment schoolboy, 11, is ‘thrown around like a rag doll’ by Rottweiler in terrifying attack
THE horrifying moment a schoolboy was “thrown around like a rag doll” by a Rottweiler has been caught on camera.
Bentley Sewell, 11, was left with severe puncture wounds and needing plastic surgery after being set upon by the beast last month.
And now neighbours are afraid to let their kids out on the street, in Farnborough, Hampshire after cops refused to seize the dog.
CCTV shows the owner struggling to control the pet as it frantically runs around lunging at children on May 22.
Bentley is playing with a pal on his street when the black Rottweiler, named Boycie, sets upon him.
The lad screams in agony as the owner, aged just 14, desperately tries to contain the animal.
Bentley’s mum, Charlene, 38, told The Sun: “He was just playing outside with his friends when the dog started lunging at him.
“He was so scared – he told me he just froze up, he didn’t know what to do so he put his arm in the way out of instinct.
“Suddenly it bit his upper arm and for about four seconds wouldn’t let go.
“It grabbed him and threw him around like a rag doll – it was horrible.
“It was only a few seconds, but in that short amount of time it managed to do a lot of damage.”
The lad was left with puncture wounds on his upper right arm, along with severe bruising and swelling.
Graphic images following the attack show muscle tissue bulging out of the gaping wounds on his arm.
Bentley was rushed to nearby Frimley Park Hospital in Frimley, Surrey, to be bandaged up – but they were unable to stitch up his wounds at risk of him developing an infection.
Three days later he was taken to Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, Berkshire – where he was given 18 stitches.
Despite the horror of the attack, police have refused to take action – telling stay-at-home mum Charlene that the attack did not constitute the dog being “out of control”.
The mum-of-eight said: “They have told us that they can’t take action because firstly, it isn’t a pitbull, and secondly, it wasn’t out of control.
“It’s insane – if you look at the footage you can clearly see that it’s out of control.
“There needs to be a massive change in dog laws – especially for a dog that bites a child.”
‘EVERYONE IS SCARED’
Terrified neighbours have now made a community relation order to have the dog muzzled at all times when it is outside after feeling “let down” by cops.
Charlene added: “It’s hard because the dogs are still there. Everyone is scared now.
“I had just called my five-year-old daughter Darcy in so thank god it didn’t happen to her.
“The owner also has a child who is about seven, too. So you worry about what will happen to the kids living in a house with that dog.
“Some of the neighbours called the RSPCA and the housing association because they feel the police have let them down.
“But one neighbour has already called 101 because it wasn’t leashed and muzzled after we put the community order in.”
Meanwhile Bentley – whilst set to make a full recovery – will be left with lifelong scarring and trauma.
‘ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED’
Charlene said: “He won’t even go to my sister’s house because she has dogs – and he’s known them forever.
“He doesn’t even want to go to school because he’s self-conscious about his scars. It’s like the only one who is being punished is him.
“His brother was already scared of dogs too but now he’s absolutely terrified of them -it’s had a knock-on effect on the whole family.”
The Sun recently revealed the areas in the UK which are the worst for dog bite attacks, and fatal maulings.
Just weeks ago a grandmother was killed by her son-in-law’s hound as she sunbathed.
Before that tributes poured in for Jonathan Hogg, 37, was mauled to death by a beast that “turned on him”.
The first person killed this year was Surrey woman Natasha Johnston, 28, who died from “multiple penetrating dog bites to the neck”.
Less than a month later little Alice Stones, four, was mauled to death by her family dog in Milton Keynes.
Last year there was a record number of deaths and over a seven-month period alone more than 2,000 people required surgery after being savaged by dogs.