{"id":254424,"date":"2026-04-17T16:43:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254424\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:43:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:43:26","slug":"video-of-deadly-dog-attack-of-3-year-old-shown-during-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254424\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of deadly dog attack of 3-year-old shown during trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe bench trial for a father charged in the death of his 3-year-old daughter after a dog attack continued Thursday.It comes after the young girl was mauled by dogs during the week of Christmas in 2024.It will be up to a panel of judges to decide whether Warren Houston is innocent or guilty. Houston pleaded not guilty to charges of manslaughter and child endangerment.WARNING: The details of the story are graphic in natureIn December 2024, Kingsley Wright was spending time with her dad for the holidays. In court, prosecutors claimed Houston put the child to sleep on the couch, with the dogs in the same room, locked inside a broken cage.On Thursday, video from that night showed Kingsley was attacked for more than 30 minutes, but nobody came to help her. Houston was sleeping in a separate room, with the door closed, according to investigators. Houston was so emotional and distraught in the court room that he had to briefly step away.During the police interrogation of Houston, he admitted he knew at least one dog had aggressive tendencies and that the cage was faulty, saying he had to use zip ties in the past to secure it.\u201cPutting her in that room so close to the dogs with a nonfunctioning cage, with the history that they had that he was aware of at the time, I think created a substantial risk,\u201d Det. Jeff Smallwood said.Smallwood said Houston didn\u2019t take steps to secure the cage that night and didn\u2019t take other precautions to keep the 3-year-old safe.Houston\u2019s defense argued the incident was a tragic accident.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

The bench trial for a father charged in the death of his 3-year-old daughter after a dog attack continued Thursday.<\/p>\n

It comes after the young girl was mauled by dogs<\/a> during the week of Christmas in 2024.<\/p>\n

It will be up to a panel of judges to decide whether Warren Houston is innocent or guilty. Houston pleaded not guilty to charges<\/a> of manslaughter and child endangerment.<\/p>\n

WARNING: The details of the story are graphic in nature<\/p>\n

In December 2024, Kingsley Wright was spending time with her dad for the holidays. In court, prosecutors claimed Houston put the child to sleep on the couch, with the dogs in the same room, locked inside a broken cage.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, video from that night showed Kingsley was attacked for more than 30 minutes, but nobody came to help her. Houston was sleeping in a separate room, with the door closed, according to investigators. <\/p>\n

Houston was so emotional and distraught in the court room that he had to briefly step away.<\/p>\n

During the police interrogation of Houston, he admitted he knew at least one dog had aggressive tendencies and that the cage was faulty, saying he had to use zip ties in the past to secure it.<\/p>\n

\u201cPutting her in that room so close to the dogs with a nonfunctioning cage, with the history that they had that he was aware of at the time, I think created a substantial risk,\u201d Det. Jeff Smallwood said.<\/p>\n

Smallwood said Houston didn\u2019t take steps to secure the cage that night and didn\u2019t take other precautions to keep the 3-year-old safe.<\/p>\n

Houston\u2019s defense argued the incident was a tragic accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bench trial for a father charged in the death of his 3-year-old daughter after a dog attack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[95994,95997,95995,27045,2441,2526,95996,3663,56,58,57,95888,21461,26112,95998,16960,16820,95889],"class_list":{"0":"post-254424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-3-year-old","9":"tag-bench-trial","10":"tag-broken-cage","11":"tag-child-endangerment","12":"tag-court","13":"tag-dog","14":"tag-dog-attack-death","15":"tag-father","16":"tag-houston","17":"tag-houston-headlines","18":"tag-houston-news","19":"tag-kingsley-wright","20":"tag-night","21":"tag-prosecutor","22":"tag-same-room","23":"tag-thursday","24":"tag-time","25":"tag-warren-houston"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}