Jamie-Lea Biscoe, 19, has been named by friends and family online as the victim who was horrifically mauled to death by a dog in Leaden Roding, Essex, on Friday night

Tributes have poured in for a teenager who was mauled to death by a dog that "slept on her bed".

Essex Police said they were called to a property in Leaden Roding at 10.45pm on Friday where they found the woman with serious injuries. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The dog, which police believe was responsible, has been seized, the force added. Jamie-Lea Biscoe, 19, has been named by friends and family online as the victim.

A relative wrote on Facebook: "Our darling Jamie-Lea rip our girl." While another, Tina Wells, said the dog was a "seven-year-old lurcher" which was a "family pet".

Ms Wells said: "She slept on my granddaughter's bed. It's devastating."

Essex Police said a man has been arrested after a 19-year-old woman died after being attacked by a dog at a property in Essex.

The man, 37, was arrested on suspicion of being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control causing injury resulting in death, after the incident near Dunmow on Friday.

One neighbour said: "It's really tragic. I feel for the whole family. She was well-liked by the kids. We didn't know what happened until this morning. For all concerned, it's devastating. We feel for the family. We're still trying to process it. It has been a shock."

Another added: "They kept themselves to themselves, they never caused us any problems. It's just very, very sad and very tragic."

Essex Police Assistant Chief Constable Stuart Hooper said: "I know this incident will be a shock to the local community. My thoughts, and those of us all at Essex Police, are with the loved ones of the woman who died yesterday.

"We will have officers in the area throughout today so please come and speak to them if you have any information or have any concerns. Experienced detectives are leading the investigation to understand exactly what has happened."

The full statement from the force read: "A woman has died following an incident involving a dog at a house in Dunmow. We were called to an address in Leaden Roding at 10.45pm on Friday 10 April and officers were on the scene quickly where they found a 19-year-old woman with serious injuries.

"Sadly, despite the best efforts of emergency services, she was pronounced dead at the scene. We have been carrying out enquiries to establish the circumstances, and we believe she had been attacked by a dog at the property in Long Hide.

"Specialist officers ensured the scene was safe and the dog has been seized. A 37-year-old man from Dunmow was arrested on suspicion of being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control and causing injury resulting in death. He is currently in custody."

I’ve posted here before. My child was absolutely horrifically attacked by a dog earlier this year. I’m talking life changing injuries, air lifted to hospital, multiple surgeries. Her life will never ever been the same. It was a dog that had escaped its garden and tore our lives apart.

We are waiting for it to go to court.

We got into so much debt when it happened, I’m talking into the thousands because both myself and my partner had to take time of work, me to be in hospital with her and my partner to be at home with our other child. Yes we got some form of compassionate pay but between all of our household bills, driving 140 round trips to and from the hospital she was in, food whilst in hospital, clothes as the antibiotics she was on made her have so many accidents. Private counselling since the NHS won’t help us.

Life has entirely changed forever. We all have PTSD, my child has been crippled in one arm. Her lungs and spine will have issues forever. And now we have to deal with debt too. It’s unfair. I want to pull my hair out.

I just needed somewhere to rant because when I’ve tried to speak in person to people I know they just say but oh isn’t it great she’s alive. Yes of course it is 100% but it doesn’t change the fact this dog has destroyed in every single way, physical, emotional, financially.

I don’t see a way to recover from this.

Someone suggested creating fundraising to help us and to take our child on amazing trips but 1) we can’t do this because of the court case and 2) there’s dogs everywhere. Absolutely everywhere. There is no trip we could take where we would be safe.

There are no bad dogs, only bad owners! 🫠

Okay but this one couldn't handle being woken up after living with it's owner for 11 years? It must really hate the smell of alcohol or be getting dementia.

Hello everyone. Mailman here. Just recently got bit by a dog today. went to the ER and the post office will be paying for all expenses for the dog bite. i’ve evaded many dogs in my years of working here and many very close encounters but this lucky one was able to get me.

no fence, no leash connected to anything. Just left in the front yard with the owner and the dog’s collar. I noticed the dog like a statue right after I delivered the mail to the owner. the dog became extremely aggressive for a few seconds and in that whole episode of me trying to defend myself and back up slowly. I thought to myself why is it taking so long for the owner to keep it’s dog in check? first the owner yelled at the dog to stop but it didn’t work. Then a good 5 seconds and finally the owner was able to get their hands on their dog.

I hate dogs. You can be good to them for a lifetime and one day they decide to go feral, they will bite your arm off and let you pass through incapacitation. sadly as we have seen many occurrences shown on news and social media.

Just be responsible with your animals. Pookie will never be as civil as a human being. Only the crazies from amongst humankind will lick the toilet bowl.

There was a news report recently of a dog attack in a city near mine where a family pet bit and killed a 7 day old baby. At first I was sure there must be extenuating circumstances, that the family must have been abusing the dog or something…so I looked up why a dog would attack a newborn, expecting something along those lines. But what I found out just…traumatized me completely.

What do you MEAN dogs see newborns as prey? What do you M E A N an 7 day old sleeping activates their hunting instincts? I’ve lived my whole life with dogs, have seen people raise children with dogs, and have never once heard that they are absolutely prone to attack unprovoked, even if they love you. Sometimes they attack your baby BECAUSE they love you, because they’re jealous of the stolen attention.

How is this not common knowledge? I work in childcare and I’m constantly seeing all these safety tips for babies like cutting up grapes or putting them in mittens so they don’t scratch themselves, but nobody sees it as a problem that the animal in their house may see their baby crying and assume it’s time to do the killing blow?

I was thinking about getting a dog, but never again. Even if I never have kids, the fact that a dog could just decide to maul a 7 day old newborn in its sleep is too much for me. I feel so bad for that family, that’s a fucking nightmare.

Literally cannot believe the half wits that exist in this world. This happened in a town near me recently. The dog had previously attacked people and was trying to attack a pregnant woman when it turned on the owner and ripped her arm off. The beast took 7 shots from police to stop it. And the owner still has the audacity to say she wish she could have saved it.

No.

Dogs like this do not deserve to live, they are dangerous and are clearly capable of killing people.

Last night my coworker came in to do her shift, puffy eyed, sniffling, the whole way over. I asked her whats up she tells me the night before her pitbull had to be put down bc he escaped through the front door and, word for word, “ran up to play with a kid because he was excited, latched onto his shirt and in the process barely scraped a bit of the boys skin”. The boys mother went crazy, called the cops, the dog got put down as a result. Ofc I said thats terrible yada yada, but I didnt say that I felt no compassion towards that pit, I have seen many dogs escape and wander around and find children playing, completely ignoring them. This pitbulls first instinct was to run towards a child, latch onto him (probably did more damage than my coworker would say) and basically get the whole neighborhood involved trying to pry this mutant off a boy. Im not a fan of dogs in the first place, but there is a special place in hell for those baby maulers and this story further proves this breed is naturally born aggressive imo (he was bought as a pup, my coworker is very sweet, lives with her sister, so no I dont believe its ‘learned from bad owners’)

After the recent dog attack that led to the death of the lady in Florida, I started looking at news in my own country of origin, Greece. I wish I could share the links but they're all in Greek. However, what shocked me was the sheer amount of documented attacks.

The National Public Health Organization provided for the first time a count of dog attacks since 2023. They share almost 3000 cases; although we can imagine how much higher the real number is - plus, the stats don't show cases from private medical care. I myself have been attacked, for example. https://www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/society-in-depth/1288812/national-study-on-dog-bites-presents-interesting-data/ An interesting point was that "stray and owned dogs were involved at nearly equal rates."

In the UK, where I am now, it's bad too. In England and Wales, they've had over 11,000 attacks within a 5-year period. https://www.met.police.uk/foi-ai/metropolitan-police/disclosure-2023/august-2023/data-dogs-out-control-january2018-may2023/

In the US, it's even worse since Americans have the most dogs per capita than in any country. "An estimated 4.5 million people are bitten each year, although the actual number injured is unknown." Almost half are children. https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/pet-owners/dog-bite-prevention/community-approach-dog-bite-prevention-abstract

Ironic how we call them a man's best friend. People are so blind, narcissistic and stubborn to the point they're willing to ignore all the attack cases, or even blame the victim sometimes.

Never liked dogs so always make an effort to steer clear , today I got bit by a small dog whilst going for a run, despite giving it a lot of room and venturing off course.

No wound but left with holes in my leggings

The owner just laughed and denied it

Didnt bother to check if i was ok, didnt apologise, just shrugged and said I must have spooked it, he also refused to give me his details. He simply didnt care.

Eta: I took pics. I insisted he apologise and not only did he refuse, he said “call the police if you care so much”, so I did! I followed him closely whilst clearly telling him what I was doing. To my surprise the police did turn up and have a chat with him lol. Doubt much will come of it

The moment her dad turned his back..

This shows the dangers of leaving children with dogs...

When will people finally learn? This woman’s face should be posted up at every dog rescue by law. A pit bull and a German Shepherd? My nightmare animals.

Just heartbreaking

I was at the park today when I heard a woman scream at the top of her lungs. I went over to see what happened. She was bleeding profusely…from her face. From her arm. And worse yet…from her neck. Her boyfriend was on the ground holding a giant pitbull down. He’s coddling the dog as she’s bleeding and screaming.

I asked her if she was okay. She begged me to call animal control or 911. I told her I would. The man starts yelling at me telling me not to. I didn’t know what to do. I was scared. Her wounds were so bad. I was worried she might be in a bad situation with him. Then, this younger woman (their daughter maybe?) shows up and gets in my face. Tells me she will kick my ass if I called animal control or 911. That’s when I did snap back. I said that dog would kill someone and I definitely would call 911. Not my best move but I snapped. I snapped because these idiots cared more about the dog than this woman who was bleeding out. They didn’t care about her.

I ran off to my car and called 911. It’s become this whole ordeal. There’s a police report. I’ve spoken to officers.

I don’t know what I got myself into. I don’t know if I did the right thing. I felt so bothered because no one cared about her. I don’t know if I helped or made things worse for her.

https://local12.com/news/nation-world/dog-knocks-over-bassinet-fatally-bites-12-day-old-ohio-boy-preble-county-breed-autopsy

Previous post was deleted so sharing again the awful news of another irresponsible, reckless parents who couldn't sacrifice their "emotional link with an animal".

I don’t particularly like any dog breed. However, bigger dog breeds really bother me, specifically German shepherds. I despise going to someone’s house and having their dogs jump all over me. I find it appalling and rude. I’m a fairly small person and I’ve been literally knocked over by big dogs. I’ve had my hair bit at. I can handle the little dogs a lot more since you just swat them away lol but the big dogs that are uncontrolled have got to stop. Where my extreme dislike of German shepherds stems from is I believe they are bred to kill small animals. I used to nanny this toddler who had a chihuahua. One day, he was outside with his chihuahua IN HIS YARD and the neighbor’s pack of German shepherds came INTO his yard and murdered his dog in front of him. Needless to say… that poor kid is really messed up. I have had a special dislike (since the “h” word isn’t allowed lol) for German shepherds since. Tell me your least favorite breeds and why…

Five years ago, I was attacked by a family member’s two pit bulls. I was horribly mauled and had to be LifeFlighted to a trauma center. I almost lost my right arm (the trauma surgeon told my brother later that the only reason they didn’t amputate it was because they thought I was going to die and didn’t want to go through all the trouble). I had massive injuries to both arms, both legs, stomach, and chest. I spent over two months in the hospital and have had 30 surgeries and skin grafts to repair the damage those dogs did. My medical bills are over $2 million (thank God for insurance!). This happened at my son’s house so he saw the carnage first hand.

Needless to say, I get very anxious around ALL dogs now, especially pit bulls. So about a year ago, my son took in a stray pit bull with the intention of finding it a home. Well, you guessed it - he still has it. Every time I go to his house, he puts it in another room. But, recently he had a party and I noticed the dog was out walking around. My heart skipped a couple of beats and I looked at my son like WTH? And he said, “Mom, she’s gonna stay out. You need to get over it and deal with it.” I was just stunned. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. It was the most hurtful thing anyone has ever said to me. I couldn’t even say anything. I just put my drink down and went home. He didn’t even notice.

Sorry to ramble. I just needed to vent.

UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who showed such awesome support to me! It’s overwhelming! In a good way! I can’t cut my son out of my life - he’s still my son and I love him. Plus he is the dad to my two grandkids, who I can’t live without. But I did have a heart-to-heart talk with him and I let him know exactly how I felt. He apologized profusely, there were lots of tears, blah blah blah. I hope things will improve from here. That being said, there’s always that saying: “People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.” I don’t think I’ll ever forget how he made me feel that night at his party. 💔😢

Ugh. Today I happened across a post of a miniature donkey on TikTok that got brutally attacked by two "XL bullies." His whole little face and body got ripped up and he had to get his upper lip removed, he is permanently deformed. The video zooms out and you see how tiny this mini donkey is-- he is so precious and wearing a little blanket and is just covered in wounds and bandages, looking so defeated. His favorite snack was dandelions at the hospital. It genuinely made me cry. Just a gentle, innocent animal that was mauled by dogs. Then, I look at the comments, which, as expected, are full of people posting photos of their huge bulldogs or pitbulls or whatever and saying how theirs would never do this because they "raised them well." Or posting a pic of their beast in a pink pajama onesie and being like "look at my dangerous pitbull" sarcastically.

Firstly, it's so out of touch and inappropriate. It's almost like they're rubbing their pitbulls in the face of the owner who is posting their injured miniature donkey and grieving over his suffering. It's very bizarre and twisted. Please read the room. I am nearly 100% sure the owner does not wish to be barraged with images of the animal that attacked their beloved pet. The entitlement and ignorance is dangerous, out of control, and infuriating.

Secondly, I wish pitbull or bulldog owners could introspect for one singular moment. If you constantly have to defend your dog online by infantilizing/anthropomorphizing it by dressing it up in girly pink outfits to prove that it's not an aggressive and dangerous animal under the plethora of posts about pitbull attacks, you are the problem.

It is foolish to not recognize that they are wild, innately aggressive, and literally bred to maul things in fights. You can't just "raise it with kindness" and that will wash away its genetic instincts. The narrative that it is 100% the owner's fault when these attacks happen is so beyond stupid. It's obviously the genetics of these beasts that is causing this (along with the stupidity of the owners). I wish we could neuter them all and prevent propagation of the violence. Such a can of worms. But I am so egregiously sick of seeing posts of these poor gentle farm animals getting brutalized by these dogs, and the law does nothing to protect them.

If you all remember, about two years ago, I pulled my kid out of the daycare center immediately as the center director started bringing her Cane Corso in as the new daycare pet. I know, I know...completely astounding stupidity on her part. I, at the time, had called the licensing and health boards to be told basically that she's allowed to do so and if I don't like it, leave. So I did, paying double at our towns other facility. Always wondered if I was a bit over the top in my reaction, but I learned today the center and director are being sued for 25k by the parents of a child in her care that was attacked by the dog, requiring stitches and medical attention. None of this has made it mainstream or well known in our town or local papers, media, etc. I heard from my sister today and verified by finding the court case.

Glad I made the right call, even if it was significantly more expensive to put him in a dogfree center. Figured I'd update all of you that had read my initial post on this

Edit: I will reach out to PA with my experience, although I don't know that it will do any good, but I suppose it can't do any harm. May send link to court case to editor of newspaper as well, so they can make their own jusgement call on it. May also include all the failed inspections she's had. I live in a poorer, mostly uneducated country suburb, so...you know, most people here are rabidly obsessed with dogs and pits and although maybe not familiar with Cane Corsos, will probably take the dogs side. Not really wanting to be front and center on the social media side of that circus. We had an Amazon delivery truck driver killed about a year ago out here by dogs, and the amount of asshats defending the dogs was shocking. Although, the town knows where I stand since the city council debate on lifting BSL was streamed live on FB and I was fighting to keep it in place. I even suggested it be expanded to include Cane Corsos...whudda thunk one would attack a kid?...oh, wait....

We can't even make it to Christmas without a toddler being attacked by a pitbull. When will people start talking about the pitbull problem?