Disturbing footage has emerged on social media showing a pit bull attacking a toddler on the streets of Manhattan.
A woman is shown pleading for bystanders to call 911 while she frantically tries to rip the dog off the toddler.
The dog latched onto the innocent child’s left leg outside of the Santander Bank in Union Square, Manhattan, around 11.10 am on Sunday, according to police.
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Several passersby attempted to pry the pit bull off the boy’s leg, with one person repeatedly kicking the dog and another putting it in a headlock.
The woman, presumably the boy’s mum, desperately cried out for help as the dog’s owner yanked on the pit bull’s leash.
“Someone pull him off! Someone please”, she said.
The dog is reportedly a two-year-old pit bull named Disco Bubba, according to New York Post police sources.
It was only once a man grabbed the dog’s private parts from behind that it released its grip on the child.
The boy can be heard crying out after the attack, as bystanders call the cops.
After the attack, the owner can be seen calmly walking off with the bloodthirsty dog and waiting at a nearby bus stop.
According to the New York Post, the baby’s father told police he was picking up his son when the boy’s leg swung in front of the pit bull’s mouth, prompting the dog to bite it.
The toddler was left with multiple leg lacerations from the vicious attack and was rushed to Bellevue Hospital for treatment.
Several good Samaritans tried desperately to get the dog to release it’s grip on the child. Credit: @newyorkwhereshithappenss/Instagram
“Brother, that’s crazy,” the man filming the horrendous ordeal can be heard saying.
“There is a hole in that boy’s leg.”
The boy’s uncle said the family will try to get the dog euthanised.
The child “had to get stitches, a lot of stitches”, he told the New York Post.
No charges have been laid yet, as New York police investigate the incident.
