Miracle of girl in dog attack
Sunday, 11 May 2008 09:06
Seven-year-old Charlotte Cooper, who lives in Robin Hood Gardens, Poplar, still bears the mark of her horrific ordeal on April 14.
An ointment has to be applied to her face several times a day, and the youngster has to see a doctor fortnightly. Charlotte is next month due to return to The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, from where she was discharged two days after the attack.
The youngster has not been to school since being mauled, and is afraid whenever she sees dogs in the streets.
Her mother Sharon told the Recorder that had the dog bitten her daughter any higher up her face, her eye would have been at risk; any lower and it could have been an artery.
Sharon said that when Charlotte came out of theatre bandaged up after stitches had been put in place, she feared the worst.
The 41-year-old dinner lady, who has had to take time off work to look after her daughter, said: "To me they've worked a miracle on her in that hospital. As far as I'm concerned she's alive, she's well."
The mother-of-two added that she and her daughter had left their block in Robin Hood Gardens and were on their way to another block in the same compound to visit a friend when the attack took place.
A police spokesperson told the Recorder a 40-year-old woman who owns the dog in question was arrested under the Dangerous Dogs Act and subsequently bailed. Her dog was seized and taken to a separate police station.
Larry Ferguson's full story in this week's Recorder
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