‘I don’t want to die’: 11-year-old Jacksonville girl recovering after getting mauled by pit bull

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – An ordinary afternoon of playing outside turned into a Jacksonville parent’s worst nightmare when her 11-year-old daughter was mauled by a pit bull at a friend’s home, her family said.

Surveillance video captured the screams and panic as the dog grabbed Jakya Dawkins, who was taken to a hospital and is recovering, relatives said.

“Me and him were in the room and I heard her screaming at first,” her mother said. “And her screams just started being different so I looked out the window and he had her by the back of her pants and was just dragging her across the yard.”…

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