{"id":268873,"date":"2026-08-20T14:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268873\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:36:07","slug":"dog-bites-6-year-old-girl-in-face-in-philadelphias-kensington-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268873\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog bites 6-year-old girl in face in Philadelphia&#8217;s Kensington section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; A 6-year-old girl was bitten in the face by a dog inside a home in Philadelphia&#8217;s Kensington section.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The video featured is from a related report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police responded to a home in the 2500 block of North Hancock Street around 7 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials say the girl was with her mother at a house with people they know when, for some unknown reason, the dog jumped on a bed the child was on and bit her in the face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">She was taken to St. Christopher&#8217;s Hospital, where she&#8217;ll be getting stitches to her face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In a separate incident, a 6-year-old boy is also recovering after he was <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/6-year-old-boy-bitten-neighbors-dog-child-was-playing-sidewalk-north-philadelphia\/19707270\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attacked by a neighbor&#8217;s dog while playing outside in North Philadelphia.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It happened as the boy was playing with friends, just before 7 p.m. on Wednesday, in the 2400 block of North 25th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">His mother took him to the hospital to be treated for bite wounds to his back and arms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">He is in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; A 6-year-old girl was bitten in the face by a dog inside a home in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[113341,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-268873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-113341","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}