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UPDATE: No Charges Expected in Fatal Walworth Co. Dog Attack

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Posted: Mon 4:27 PM, Mar 18, 2013

UPDATE: 3/18 at 4:26 p.m.

TOWN OF WALWORTH, Wis. (AP) -- The Walworth County sheriff's office says no charges are expected in a pit bull attack that killed a young boy earlier this month.

Sheriff's Capt. Dana Nigbor tells The Janesville Gazette she does not anticipate any criminal charges being filed in the mauling.

The district attorney's office will make a final charging decision. District Attorney Daniel Necci said Friday it was too soon to tell if his office would file charges.

Fourteen-month-old Daxton Borchardt was at his baby sitter's home in the Town of Walworth March 6 when the two were attacked by the woman's pit bulls.
The boy was pronounced dead a few hours later.

Funeral services for Dax, as the boy was called, were held last Tuesday in Williams Bay.

The two pit bulls were euthanized.
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UPDATE: 3/6 at 5:49 p.m.

According to WMTV-TV, the child has died at a Milwaukee hospital.

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ORIGINAL STORY: 3/6 at 4:26 p.m.

A 14-old-month Walworth County boy is in critical condition at a Milwaukee children's hospital after he and 30-year-old woman were attacked by two dogs.

According to WISN-TV, it happened around 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Town of Walworth.

A police captain reports the animals were removed from the property and were euthanized by a local veterinarian.

The woman sustained non-life threatening injuries.


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