An influencer is being sued by her former best pal for letting her pit bull dog savage her one-year-old daughter’s face at a family party.
Chiara Camerra is also demanding that the dog should be put down as part of any settlement, report local media in Italy.
Chaira had been preparing a bottle of milk for her daughter at the barbeque party hosted by her friend Tara Gabrieletto when she heard growling on 19th December 2020.
She looked up and saw to her horror, the dog with its jaws clamped on her daughter’s face.
She told local media: “He was tossing her around like a rag doll.”
She added: “The dog had ripped off half her face, she had cuts on her head and forehead.
“But he was hanging on and if I hadn’t intervened, he would have killed her.
“I took a kitchen towel to stop the blood coming out everywhere, the dog had ripped off half her face.
“She had cuts on her head and forehead, I don’t know how I didn’t pass out because I’m also impressionable.
“The maternal instinct prevailed. I looked at Tara and said please wake me up from this nightmare.”
Her daughter ended up in an intensive care unit with horrific facial injuries from which she is still recovering two years after the attack.
Now Chiara, in the lawsuit with her former best friend, TV’s Temptation Island star Tara Gabrieletto who owns the dog, insists on the dog being put down.
She said Tara had seemed more interested in preserving her online than in punishing her dog.
Chiara – who promotes slimming products – said that she had spent all her time helping her daughter through intensive care, facial reconstriction and eye surgery and lost track of time.
Chiara said: “I was given Tara’s lawyer to deal with a lot of matters, including insurance claim, and I wasn’t really thinking about anything else.
“In the meantime, she moved to Rome and then effectively disappeared.
“Later, I realised that she had been more worried about what impact it would have on the social media following.
“She had asked me not to talk about it, and it was then I realised I needed to change lawyers.”
Chiara’s new lawyer told local media: “Unfortunately, when she came to me, the possibility for a criminal case has timed out and now it’s a civil case to get proper compensation.”
He said they had received EUR 310,000 for the injury but are also demanding compensation for the young mother’s family, who have looked after the baby through her recovery.
Chiara’s daughter is currently living in the United States with her father, a United States serviceman.
