[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] A Navajo Nation mother demands better enforcement of animal control after her 13-year-old daughter was mauled by a neighbor’s dogs earlier this year.
Back in May, Lyssa Rose Upshaw was killed while walking near her home in Fort Defiance, on the Navajo Nation.
Her mother, Marissa Jones, told the Navajo Times the young teen was found curled up in a ball with her clothes in shreds and her legs “all chewed up.” An autopsy recently confirmed the girl died from wounds sustained in an attack by multiple dogs, the Associated Press reports, but Jones knew from the start that her daughter had been mauled to death by her neighbor’s two dozen “mean” dogs.
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