Pit Bull Mauls Wilkinsburg Child

An 8-year-old boy was viciously attacked by a pit bull on Saturday afternoon in Wilkinsburg.

Rocco Doman was attacked along Elm Street.

His father told Channel 11 that his son had bites on his head, face, neck, legs and back.

Timothy Doman said neighbors called him to tell him a dog was biting his son.

He said, "When I got up there he was laying on the neighbor's floor next door to where the dog lived in the living room, laying there with a towel on his head, bleeding profusely."

Council member Carl Lewis said, "It conerns me a great deal. We want to make sure our residents are safe."

Doman said his son is in good spirits at Children's Hospital, but will probably need plastic surgery in his recovery.