Compare and contrast
Here are two stories covering the same tragic incident of a child attacked by a dog. Story one:
Investigators call it the worst pit bull attack in recent memory: an 18-month-old Cannon County girl left to fend for herself while her caretaker slept inside. Now the child is in critical but stable condition in a Nashville hospital while her mother’s boyfriend faces charges.
Her youthful resilience might spare her, but it was childlike curiosity that led 18-month-old Bre’el Thomas down a path and into the jaws of a vicious pit bull. Sheree Gregg found the little girl after the savage mauling.
A Woodbury toddler remains in critical condition at a Nashville hospital after being mauled by a pit bulldog.
Police say the dog was chained at a home near the house trailer which 18-month-old Breel Thomas wandered from.
The child’s mother, Laura Stock, had left her in the care of her boyfriend, Jeffrey Thomas. Police say Thomas was drunk and didn’t watch Breel.
The first story opens with words like vicious and savage. The first story (only after using words to raise your hair) does conclude by stating that no one in the family blamed the dog.
