A two-year-old boy was transported to Leesburg Regional Medical Center after he was bit in the face by a German Shepherd.
Marion County Fire Rescue had been called Monday night to a residence on SE 130th Avenue in Weirsdale for an unrelated Baker Act case. A paramedic saw that the boy’s face was bleeding. The boy’s 21-year-old mother indicated the boy had been bit by the family’s German Shepherd.