{"id":19,"date":"2012-10-01T14:10:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T18:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2012-10-10T14:19:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T18:19:59","slug":"li-dog-attack-horror-new-york-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/li-dog-attack-horror-new-york-post\/","title":{"rendered":"LI dog-attack horror (New York Post)"},"content":{"rendered":"

LI dog-attack horror<\/strong>
\nMy son\u2019s ear chewed off: dad<\/p>\n

By LAUREL BABCOCK and DAN MANGAN<\/em>
\nLast Updated: 3:59 AM, June 5, 2012<\/em>
\nPosted: 1:26 AM, June 5, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/li_dog_attack_horror_BqaI6mJvaQROCJCq24glWO<\/a><\/p>\n

A Manhattan pediatrician whose 80-pound dog, Archie, is notorious for being \u201cvicious and dangerous\u201d took the pooch to a Long Island elementary school playground \u2014 despite signs banning dogs \u2014 where it promptly attacked a 6-year-old boy and chewed off his earlobe, a scathing lawsuit charged yesterday.<\/p>\n

Then, instead of giving bleeding, screaming Andrew Esposito medical assistance, Dr. Deborah Levine said, \u201cEverything\u2019s going to be fine, It\u2019s no big deal,\u201d recalled Andrew\u2019s dad, Edward Esposito.<\/p>\n

Levine had brought the hulking black Labrador mix, Archie, on a leash on May 18 to Philip Sousa Elementary School in Port Washington, LI, where Andrew\u2019s brother was playing a baseball game, Esposito said.<\/p>\n

Levine, who is a professor of emergency pediatric medicine at NYU School of Medicine, owns the dog with her urologist husband, Dr. Michael Levine.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, \u201cI heard a noise, like something you hear in a bear attack \u2014 just a horrible noise,\u201d Esposito recalled.<\/p>\n

Esposito, 39, turned to see 45-pound Andrew lying face-down and crying in the dirt \u2014 with half of his right ear lying nearby.<\/p>\n

Deborah Levine, still holding Archie\u2019s leash, said, \u201cHe\u2019ll be fine\u201d \u2014 but Andrew wasn\u2019t fine, even after being rushed to St. Francis Hospital and undergoing two hours of surgery, his dad recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey couldn\u2019t reattach the half that was taken off,\u201d Esposito said. He said his son now faces \u201cmany\u201d plastic-surgery procedures.<\/p>\n

The still-shaken Andrew since has been kept home from kindergarten \u2014 and \u201cthinks his ear is growing back,\u201d his dad said.<\/p>\n

Esposito yesterday sued his now-ex-friends in Nassau Supreme Court, claiming the Levines\u2019 recklessness led to Andrew\u2019s permanent injuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis child is going to be significantly disfigured for the rest of his life,\u201d said Esposito\u2019s lawyer, Rosemarie Arnold<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arnold also said Archie \u201cis known around the neighborhood as having vicious propensities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deborah Levine refused to comment from her Port Washington home.<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Kieran Crowley<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LI dog-attack horror My son\u2019s ear chewed off: dad By LAUREL BABCOCK and DAN MANGAN Last Updated: 3:59 AM, June 5, 2012 Posted: 1:26 AM, June 5, 2012 http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/li_dog_attack_horror_BqaI6mJvaQROCJCq24glWO A Manhattan pediatrician whose 80-pound dog, Archie, is notorious for being \u201cvicious and dangerous\u201d took the pooch to a Long Island elementary school playground \u2014 despite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,4],"tags":[9,8,13,15,14,16,11,12,10,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}