Mia O’Connell was fatally mauled by a rescue dog at the family house in Co Waterford, Eire, on June 6, 2021 (Picture: Provision)

A 3-month-vintage child used to be mauled to dying by means of the family rescue dog, an inquest has heard.

Mia O’Connell, from Co. Waterford in Ireland, was once dragged out of her cot through the family’s rescue terrier dachshund go, referred to as Purple, in June 2021.

She used to be found through her aunt Emily Picket ‘who screamed’ while she walked into her niece’s room to look the child on the floor coated in blood with Pink standing over her, the Irish Day By Day Mail stories.

The inquest heard baby Mia’s parents – Rhys O’Connell and Ella Picket – have been ‘ecstatic’ at the birth in their daughter and have been left heartbroken over her loss of life.

Emily mentioned: ‘i could see Mia at the ground in the middle of the room, between the bed and the Moses basket.

there was blood all over the place the canine’s mouth.

‘My first response was to scream out for Mia’s mum Ella. I picked Mia up right away. there has been a pink and white muslin material on the unmarried bed that I grabbed in an instant and put it to the back of the top to forestall the bleeding.

‘Mia was dressed in a vest and a baby develop whilst i discovered her. i will’t remember seeing any tears or rips on her garments. I simply needless to say the blood on her head and on the flooring.’

Mia’s grandma Noreen began CPR and called an ambulance.

Baby Mia’s aunt Heidi O’Connell and pa Rhys O’Connell attended the inquest, but Mia’s mum Ella used to be reportedly too dissatisfied to also go (Credits: Daragh Mc Sweeney)

Ella informed the Gardaí: ‘I had never heard her scream like that earlier than. Whilst I were given upstairs i’ll see Emily at the touchdown, she used to be protecting my baby, my Mia, in her arms.

i may now not fully see the again of Mia’s head as Emily used to be preserving a muslin material to her head.

‘Emily said, “it was the dog, it was once the canine.” i’ll see the dog’s face used to be covered in blood. Noreen started doing CPR. Mia was once still bleeding. i used to be in surprise. I froze.’

She died hours later at Cork College Medical Institution.

Family Members had expressed fear about the dog, with Ella announcing she ‘didn’t adore it from the start’ and ‘felt uncomfortable with it round the baby’.

The dog was once originally rehomed because it had refused to seek for its previous owner, and has now been destroyed.

But baby Mia’s dad, Rhys O’Connell, mentioned they weren’t conscious the dog had prior to now been used for searching.

Mia’s grandma carried out CPR on her until the ambulance arrived (Picture: PA)