{"id":87855,"date":"2026-10-26T13:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T17:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87855"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T17:22:35","slug":"4-year-old-boy-mauled-to-death-by-american-bully-dog-he-didnt-deserve-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/4-year-old-boy-mauled-to-death-by-american-bully-dog-he-didnt-deserve-this\/","title":{"rendered":"4-Year-Old Boy Mauled To Death By American Bully Dog: \u2018He Didn\u2019t Deserve This\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>New York Post (tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/three-days-4-year-old-146084497.jpg?w=842\" alt=\" Garcia Welch, who was killed in a dog attack in Louisa County, Va. on Sunday.\" width=\"258\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A 4-year-old Virginia boy was mauled to death by an American bully dog while his horrified older brother helplessly watched, according to police and his devastated family.<\/p>\n<p>Little Garcia Welch, who had just started preschool, was attacked Sunday while spending the weekend with his dad in Louisa County \u2014 and police had to \u201cput down\u201d the canine while it was still biting him, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.louisacounty.gov\/m\/newsflash\/home\/detail\/550\">according to the county sheriff\u2019s office<\/a>.\u00a0Responders rushed the boy to a landing area to be airlifted to a hospital, but he was declared dead before he was loaded onto the helicopter, according to cops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Post (tabloid): A 4-year-old Virginia boy was mauled to death by an American bully dog while his.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87856,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87855\/revisions\/87856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}