FLATBUSH, Brooklyn (WABC) — A toddler is useless in Brooklyn, mauled by the household’s canine, and expenses are pending in opposition to the boy’s father.

Police say he left his 19-month-old son, Ryan Francis Foster, within the care of his different two youngsters, ages 9 and 11, and the Rottweiler is claimed to have a historical past of aggression.

Officers have been dispatched to a primary flooring condo on East seventeenth Road in Flatbush simply after 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, and the discovered the younger boy bleeding closely and with a number of wounds to his physique.

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Authorities say the 30-year-old father left his toddler along with his different two sons whereas went to work, and in some way the canine turned on the boy.

Investigators say after the assault, the older brothers ran out of the condo with the injured sibling searching for assist.

Foster was rushed to an space hospital, the place he was pronounced useless.

The 11-year-old was reportedly frightened of the animal, as he was beforehand bit in 2019.

“It is a horrible scenario,” NYPD Assistant Chief Michael Kemper mentioned. “Horrible scenario for them and definitely for the household that’s affected by this tragedy.”

The 2 different youngsters weren’t damage.

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“Detectives from the seventieth Precinct and Brooklyn South Murder Squad are totally engaged within the investigation,” Kemper mentioned. “It’s totally lively proper now, pending a search warrant for the condo, and we’re working with the Kings County DA’s Workplace proper now in relation to expenses.”

The condo and the canine are mentioned to belong to the youngsters’s grandparents, who’re overseas. The boys’ dad and mom will not be collectively, and the mom had left them within the care of their father.

The grandparents are the superintendents of the condo constructing the place the assault occurred, and so they reportedly had the canine for safety, as they’ve burglarized prior to now.

The canine has been faraway from the house, and the investigation into the incident continues.

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