Dog bites girl, 12, outside Dayton home

A 12-year-old girl is recovering after a pitbull darted from a Troy Street home and bit her, according to a Dayton police report.

Officers responded to the house in the 700 block of Troy around 3 p.m. Monday after the dog bit the girl in the left leg, below the knee, police said.

The resident at the home said the brown female pitbull named Tara rushed out of the house when she opened the door, and the resident didn’t realize the screen door was open, the report read.

The Montgomery County Animal Resource Center took possession of the animal.

The girl was tended to by medics on the scene.

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