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Alice Peacock

Mum's horror after spotting lifeless body of son, two, mauled to death by killer dogs

A heartbroken mum has spoken of the moment she saw her son's lifeless body after he was mauled to death by two killer dogs.

Takisha Pollard had been staying at accommodation provided by her housing department for just one night before the horrifying incident happened.

Ms Pollard said she had gone to get her five-year-old daughter a drink from inside the building and left Jyedon, two, to play on his scooter outside the room.

She returned a minute later to find he had vanished from outside the Country Gardens Inn, in Cowra, in New South Wales, Australia.

Ms Pollard said she "was yelling ‘Where’s Jyedon, where’s Jyedon?’”

(9 News)

“Then the man came running with my son in his arms... screaming ‘call an ambulance’."

Despite people having said they heard a kid screaming, Ms Pollard said Jyedon was by this point "silent".

Jyedon was rushed at Cowra Hospital in a critical condition before being airlifted to Westmead Hospital in Sydney, where he died on Tuesday afternoon.

Jyedon Pollard as a baby, with his mum, Kesha (Facebook)

The little boy died from injuries to his neck as well as punctures to his heart and lungs, after being attacked by a Rottweiler and a cattle dog.

Ms Pollard has criticised the housing department after they put her family up at a motel as temporary accommodation.

“I’m furious at Housing for not checking it out properly and seeing there were dogs there,” she told the Daily Telegraph.

Little Jyedon died as a result of his face and neck injuries (9 News)
The toddler died at Westmead Hospital in Sydney (Kesha Pollard / TikTok)

Cowra police said Jyedon got into an enclosed area where the dogs were being kept.

Ms Pollard and her children had been moved to alternative temporary accommodation.

A Department of Communities and Justice spokesman said officials “inspect temporary accommodation facilities to ensure that standards continue to be met”.

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