Sad, doubt there's any legal issue over it though. Sounds like a tragic case, must have been horrific for the mom. Just looking at the picture of the poor girl next to that big ugly mutt my first thought was I would never let those two things together unsupervised under any circumstance, but I'm sure the mom really believed it was friendly. Thing is if it's a rescue dog in a new home you never know for sure. If you have small children it isn't worth a snowballs chance in hell anything could ever happen just so you can have a freaking pet as well.

Maybe there should be more onus on either the shelters or people rescuing dogs to actually know what kind of temperament the creature has before you allow it into a home with small children. Could be that the mutt should have just been shot as many of these stupid pit bulls and other aggressive breeds should be, I don't know.