Mother Of Girl Killed By Dog Thinks No One At Fault

The mother of an 8-year-old girl killed by a dog on Monday spoke for the first time since her daughter’s death.

She said she doesn’t think anyone is at fault for the mauling.

Tara Wood said she wants her daughter Brianna remembered as a fun loving 8-year-old not a girl mauled by a dog.

Brianna was her only child and Wood called her daughter her best friend.

She also wants people to know she did nothing wrong by sending Brianna to live with her good friends.

The girl was living with guardians, William and Diana Renda, in Hanover Township, Beaver County.

Her mother said she was down on her luck and had recently lost her job and her home and had no where else to go.

She wanted to find stability for Brianna.

Wood said, “I took her, put her in a safe place. I trusted them like family. She’d be fine while looking for a job and home. I promised her this was temporary that we’d be back together, now I don't get to fulfill that.”

Two weeks into the stay, Brianna was mauled, killed by the homeowner’s dog.

Police said the girl apparently went into an old camping trailer that the dog could enter while chained. That's where her body was found, with serious wounds to her neck and other parts areas.

Wood said she doesn’t blame the Rendas and called it a freak accident.