Lying in a hospital bed with his hand swathed in bandages, this is the five-week-old baby who had his finger ripped off by a fox.
Denny Dolan’s terrified mother Hayley Cawley found her living room ‘covered in blood’ and the fox mauling her son during the attack in their home.
Last night Denny’s aunt said she believed the fox had been trying to ‘drag the baby out of the house’ when the child’s mother came across the horrifying scene.
Bedside vigil: Denny Dolan lying in his hospital bed after he was attacked by a fox in his home in south London
In hospital: Denny Dolan was asleep in his cot
when his mother heard a piercing scream as the four-week-old boy was
flung to the floor
Horror: The baby was viciously mauled and could have been much more seriously injured
The mother and baby were not at their house in
Bromley, Kent, left, on Sunday - after a fox entered through their back
door, right, that had been left open because it was broken and was
awaiting repair
Denny had to have his finger reattached in surgery and needed stitches to his cheek, as well as treatment for injuries to his face and head.
His mother was said to be ‘shaking’ and ‘traumatised’ yesterday and keeping a vigil by her baby’s bedside at the Evelina Children’s Hospital in central London with her 28-year-old partner Paul Dolan.
Mr Dolan’s sister Lorraine Murphy, 42, said her brother had told her what had happened and she had ‘feared the worst’ after the baby was taken to hospital.
Traumatic: Parents Paul Dolan and Hayley Cawley have been keeping a bedside vigil for their son Denny
Urban menace: A fox seen yesterday in the garden adjacent to the house where Denny was attacked
Scene of the horror: The house in Bromley, south London, where Denny was attacked
‘Hayley heard the baby’s screams and she came running into the room and fought the fox off the baby. He was covered in blood and there was blood on the doors.
‘It was Hayley’s actions which saved the child. She was there so quickly and she fought the fox off.’
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