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Thursday, July 17, 2025

Boy bitten by dog recovering at home

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967 days ago
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Three-year-old Jalil Dass

Three-year-old Jalil Dass

rishard.khan@guardian.co.tt

Three-year-old Jalil Dass is re­cov­er­ing at home since Sun­day af­ter un­der­go­ing surgery fol­low­ing an at­tack by a dog at his Bar­rack­pore home last week.

“He com­ing along. He re­cov­er­ing but it will take some time,” his moth­er, Cassyann Dass told Guardian Me­dia on Tues­day.

How­ev­er, she not­ed that while he is home, where the in­ci­dent oc­curred, his trau­ma is ev­i­dent.

“When he come home, he re­mem­ber the dog in the gallery. He say­ing, you know, dog bite him, dog bite him so it’s some­thing he’d get over in time to come,” she said.

Now, Dass said they are ex­plor­ing the op­tion of ther­a­py for the fam­i­ly af­ter the in­ci­dent.

“We want to do that. Even for me, it was a trau­ma­tis­ing ex­pe­ri­ence be­cause men­tal­ly, no­body would know what I face as the moth­er, see­ing these things, deal­ing with these things (with) my child go­ing through surgery and through it all and I had to re­al­ly deal with it by my­self be­cause not every­body al­lowed to be in the hos­pi­tal with me,” she said.

Dass com­mend­ed the doc­tors for an ex­cel­lent job re­con­struct­ing the boy’s face.

“He did plas­tic surgery be­cause of the ex­tent of the dam­age. But it did re­al neat, re­al good. They did a re­al good job. It will scar but they not sure like how the mus­cles in his face go­ing to re­act be­cause they said have some spots he might lose the feel­ing, he might not be able to do cer­tain ges­tures,” she said.

Jalil was play­ing with a ball in the gallery of his Mus­sarap North home around 2.20 pm on Mon­day, No­vem­ber 14 when the in­ci­dent oc­curred. Dass rushed to his aid and fought the dog off her son. She said the dog be­longed to a res­i­dent of the area.

The fam­i­ly is now tak­ing le­gal ac­tion against the own­er of the dog and is rep­re­sent­ed by at­tor­ney, Anand Ram­lo­gan.


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