Mother of Ridgeville infant in 911 call: ‘Dog has blood all over it’

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He "dozed off"... I suspect drugs and/or alcohol were involved.

Just imagine what an infant in a baby swing looks like to a dog... Most of those swings I know are springy and would make for a great game of tug. With the baby swinging, bouncing and squealing, I could see how a dog could get kicked into a high prey/play drive. It seems people will never learn that babies should not be left unattended with dogs or other hazzards for that matter.

Tragic story...... Why Dad fell asleep leaving a dog, basically a strange dog....according to the story they were watching it for a friend.... with 2 kids 2yr. and under is the question.

Don't people read the papers anymore ?

What a scene for Mom to have to come home to.

People need to wake up and learn that NO CHILD SHOULD NEVER BE LEFT ALONE WITH ANY BREED OF DOG !!!

A more in depth article.....

Infant boy killed when mauled by family dog in Ridgeville as father slept

• Andrew Knapp
• Edward Fennell
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• Saturday, April 21, 2012 12:59 a.m.

Photo by Andrew Knapp/STAFFThe two dogs of the McGrew family were taken away by a Dorchester County animal control officer Friday after one mauled an infant in his home near Ridgeville.


RIDGEVILLE — While his father slept in a nearby bedroom, a 2-month-old boy who had been napping was mauled Friday by the family's newly adopted dog.
The boy, Aiden McGrew, was apparently pulled from an infant's swing and his legs torn off by the golden retriever-Labrador mix inside the family's mobile home on Sandpit Road, authorities said.


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• Lucky, the dog that was involved in the attack on a 2-month-old, is now in a pen at the Dorchester County Sheriffs Office.
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• This is the mobile home on Sandpit Road near Ridgeville in which 2-month-old Aiden McGrew was attacked and fatally injured Friday, while the child’s father slept.
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• This is the mobile home on Sandpit Road near Ridgeville in which 2-month-old Aiden McGrew was mauled Friday, while the child’s father slept.

Aiden, who was born on Valentine's Day, was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Neighbors described the dog, named Lucky, as gentle, and they expressed shock. One investigator called the death one of the most gruesome he had seen in his career.
“This is about as bad as it can get for a police officer,” Dorchester County Sheriff L.C. Knight said at an afternoon news conference.
The boy's parents were questioned Friday afternoon, but no charges have been filed. Numerous state and local agencies are investigating, Knight said.
Knight said Aiden is a son of Quintin and Chantel McGrew, who are raising two other children. The other children, ages 7 and 3, were taken into custody by the state Department of Social Services after the 2-month-old's death.


Child was in swing

Knight said Quintin McGrew was sleeping in a bed with the 3-year-old child and the family's other dog, and Chantel McGrew was taking the 7-year-old to a doctor's visit, when Aiden was attacked.
“The child was in a small swing and was asleep,” Knight said. “I'm not sure who put the child in the swing.”
Knight said the family adopted Lucky a few weeks ago, but their other dog has been with them for years. He said the McGrews “dog sat” for Lucky previously and decided to keep the dog when its previous owners wanted to give it up.
Knight said he knows of no prior complaints made about the dog, or any reports of aggressive behavior.
Asked why the boy's father apparently did not hear any commotion or awaken when the mauling took place in a nearby room, Knight said only that the matter is under investigation. The door to the room where the baby was apparently was open, he said.
Chantel McGrew told officials that she returned home just after 11 a.m. and found the infant on the floor by the swing with his legs torn off and his abdomen ruptured and bleeding.
The mother told 911 dispatchers that the father was asleep when she got home.
The boy was rushed by ambulance to Summerville Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Authorities said a helicopter was dispatched from Medical University Hospital, but plans to fly Aiden there were changed because of the boy's grave condition.
The Post and Courier's attempt to ask the child's mother about the incident were met by her landlord's demand to leave the property.
Shirley Pargiello, 70, a next-door neighbor, said the McGrews moved to the home just after Aiden was born. “I see them all the time coming home from the grocery store with the kids,” Pargiello said.
“They seem like a very nice couple and a nice family,” she said.
A Facebook page for Chantel McGrew depicts her and husband in loving embraces, and a photo of mom and Aiden is inscribed: “Best Valentines Day Present.”
Speaking about Lucky, Pargiello said she typically does not like dogs. “But it's a beautiful dog. I went over to say hi one day, and he came right up to me and stopped. I rubbed his head, then he left. It's a very gentle dog.”
Another next-door neighbor, who asked not to be identified, said the family's dogs “were never aggressive.”


Autopsy planned

Coroner Chris Nisbet said an autopsy planned for today will “hopefully be able to determine if the child died prior to the dismemberment.”
He called Friday “one of the saddest days” in his more than 20 years on the job.
“This is “one of the worst deaths I have ever handled. (A) beautiful little boy was bitten multiple times and dismembered ... while the mother was away and the father was sleeping,” he said.
Knight said that in addition to the sheriff's and coroner's offices, DSS, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control and the 1st Circuit Solicitor's Office are investigating the tragedy.
The State Law Enforcement Division's Child Fatality Review Team has been notified of the death and will decide whether to join the investigation, Knight said.
DSS workers were seen escorting the two older McGrew children from the home and into a vehicle Friday as deputies finished their work at the scene.
An animal control officer caged the family's two dogs and a few chickens that the family also kept in this remote area east of Cottageville. Their fate wasn't immediately known.
Knight said the dogs did not act aggressively when they were corralled and transported. He expressed his conviction that large dogs and small children do not mix.
The McGrews' dogs were being held in the afternoon in pens at the county Law Enforcement Center near Summerville. When the pen was approached by reporters and photographers, Lucky wagged his tail and barked as if beckoning the visitors to come play.

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The comments to the story above....are really interesting.
Some people are saying that the baby might've been already dead.....and the dog attack was a cover-up
One person is saying that the Dad is a deadbeat, drug addict (Xanax)
A lot of conflicting information coming out of this story.........should be an interesting one to follow.

Check out the comments at the story I posted.....interesting.

I would have expected the family dog to react and at least make a lot of noise.

Something about this story just doesn't smell right to me.

I agree about the Dad, DD....but I'm not so sure he wasn't capable of injuring that child himself...and then trying to cover it up and then get the dog riled up with the baby's dead body...I know I'm being morbid here...but getting the dog to go after it....so he could place the blame on the dog.

I just don't believe that the noise that would've been coming from that baby would not have been heard by the other kid in the house...or even as Clowie said...the other dog.


Basically the parents are neglectful.....that woman left the 2 youngest kids at home, alone with a low life drug addict....I wouldn't have left him in charge of a pet rock.

Not saying you are but I would never make any excuses for a dog doing anything like this. The dog and the father in my opinion needs their heads cut off

I feel the same way you do. When I read "Labrador Retriver mix" I was like "WHAHAAAAT?!" But yes, this was very tragic and I feel so sorry for the mother. Walking into something like that.. oh my gosh, I can't even imagine. How did the father NOT WAKE UP?! I mean, your child had to have been screaming and.. oh goodness this is just so sad.

Yes, I guess I was making an excuse for the dog while pointing out that it is in a dog's nature to get overly excited by such stimulation of its prey drive. It is because of this natural prey drive that dogs should be supervised when in the presence of infants.

I don't see what happened to that poor baby as an act of aggression but rather a tragic outcome to negligent parenting. The dog should still be destroyed even though it may have done nothing "wrong" simply because the mother of the baby should not have to live on the same planet as that dog.

I can understand how you as a pit bull enthusiast would feel that any percieved human aggression should be dealt with by death of the dog since the culling human aggressive pit bulls has been practiced for decades to eliminate human aggressive tendencies from the pit bull breed. You and I will probably just have to agree to disagree on this subject.

I see where you are coming from 100 percent. I'm willing to bet the dog isn't aggressive, but........ off with it's head. There is still no excuse for it, I just look at it as a stupid father and a stupid dog.

There has to be more to this story my heart goes out to everyone involved