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‘Like a nightmare': Parents speak as South Florida boy recovers from Bahamas dog attack

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A South Florida mother and father are speaking out after a family vacation to the Bahamas turned into a nightmare for their 9-year-old son who was severely injured in an attack by a pack of dogs . Beau Brattain was airlifted by the U.S. Coast Guard to Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he continues to recover from the July 28 attack. His parents say that, given the severity of his injuries, he is defying the odds and making progress every day, but his physical and emotional recovery could take years. The attack left Beau with injuries across most of his body, including deep gashes on his arms and a scalp injury that his father described as devastating. Beau Brattain “I looked at his head and I noticed that like this much of his scalp was missing completely,” his mother said. “That’s when I really started to freak out because one thing was these bites. The other thing was this exposed scalp, tissue, nerves, brain…all the things are like a nightmare. An image that now that my son i

First report: American boy, 9, nearly mauled to death after pack of savage dogs bit him 100 TIMES while vacationing with his family at lavish Bahamas resort — dailymail.co.uk, 8d