Providence boy, 12, recovering after dog mauling

A Providence middle schooler is recovering after being mauled by a dog when walking home with his friends last Monday.

Alliacious Mentor, 12, was leaving the Boys and Girls Club on the city’s south side on Jan. 13 when a dog got out of a home on Sayles Street and went after the group.

Lisa Washington was also walking home with her two grandchildren when she saw the whole thing unfold.

“The lady opened the door to her house and once she opened the door that’s when the dog came out and started chasing the kids,” Washington said. “You don’t watch something like that and don’t do anything.”

Mentor’s three friends were able to make it safely over the fence into the Boys and Girls Club but Mentor couldn’t manage to pull himself over.

“I told the kids don’t move and Allacious panicked and the dog went after him,” Washington said. “The dog was biting on him. Like every time the dog was biting on him I was kicking the dog I was punching the dog and that dog would not get off that kid.”

The owner was eventually able to pry the dog off of Mentor, but not before ripping off a portion of his bottom lip.

“The way that dog was biting that kid like he would lock on him and just shake,” she said. “It was horrible.”

Washington was at a hearing Wednesday with Mentor and his family and the dog was deemed vicious.

“I’m just glad I was there because I believe it would have been much much more because there was nobody there to help him,” Washington said.

Mentor’s mother tells ABC 6 that her son had his first plastic surgery but still has two more procedures to go.

Washington set up a GoFundMe page for the family while Mentor recovers.