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Pit bull attacks girl and ice cream man in St. Ann

It's not the first issue the neighborhood had with the pit bulls from that house.
Video showed a pitbull trying to get under the fence.

ST. ANN, Mo. — A little girl and an ice cream truck driver are recovering from a pit bull attack Sunday in St. Ann.

The girl was at an ice cream truck on St. Joachim Street when a pit bull bolted out of the house across the street and bit her. When the ice cream truck driver jumped in to help, the dog bit him, too. They were both treated at the hospital for their injuries, police said.

The little girl’s mom says the dog bit her six times.

It’s not the first issue the neighborhood had with the pit bulls from that house.

"It got to the point that they were coming at me, like barking at me in my own yard,” Christy Seal said.

She’s a dog trainer who shares a fence with the family.

She says there are three adult pit bulls in the house, and they became more and more aggressive over the past four years.

They would jump over the fence into her yard, even bite her dogs. When she put up a taller privacy fence to protect herself, she captured video of the dogs digging underneath it, still trying to come after her and her pets.

She says Sunday’s attack wasn’t a shock.

"I was horrified, but no, no I wasn't surprised. I had even expressed to neighbors that it would be somebody out walking their dog or a child on a bike,” Seal said.

One neighbor told us they called 911 when one of the dogs bit a mailman just a few months ago. Another neighbor said she called to report the house for a year because she suspected they were breeding pit bulls there.

After Sunday’s attack, police said the dogs were quarantined. The house is now condemned by order of the city.

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