A Morgan County child is fighting to recover after being attacked by her grandparents’ two Rottweilers while playing in their yard Friday.
🏥 What’s Happening: The 4-year-old girl suffered severe injuries including deep lacerations to her head and around her right eye, according to the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office.
- Her 71-year-old grandmother sustained numerous injuries while shielding the child with her own body during the attack
- Both Rottweilers, which the family had owned for three years, have been euthanized
🔍 Between the Lines: The grandmother told authorities the dogs had never shown aggressive behavior before the sudden attack.
🚁 Catch Up Quick: The child was airlifted to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta for treatment of her serious injuries.
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Truth doesn’t bend because we dislike it.
Facts don’t vanish when they make us uncomfortable.
Events happen whether we accept them or not.
Good reporting challenges us. The press isn’t choosing sides — it’s relaying what official, verified sources say. Blaming reporters for bad news is like blaming a thermometer for a fever.
Americans have a history of misunderstanding simple things. In the 1980s, A&W rolled out a 1/3-pound burger to compete with McDonald’s Quarter Pounder. It failed because too many people thought 1/3 was smaller than 1/4. If we can botch basic math, we can certainly misread the news.
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- What evidence backs this?
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