Bexar County Sheriff: More charges filed against dog owner after 1-year-old child killed in attack

SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) — More charges have been filed against a woman whose dogs attacked a 1-year-old child she was babysitting.

The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office says 36-year-old Heather Rodriguez was supposed to be caring for Jiryiah Johnson Monday when her pit bulls attacked the child.

Johnson later died from his injuries at a local hospital.

BCSO says Rodriguez was initially charged with Injury to a child with intent causing serious bodily injury.

But on Tuesday, additional charges of injury to a child—reckless bodily injury, a state jail felony, and endangering a child, imminent danger—causing bodily injury, a second-degree felony.

The additional charges were tacked on when investigators learned that Rodriguez left her 13-year-old daughter alone to babysit Johnson.

The teenager tried to rescue the baby from the dogs after they broke through the door to the room he was in.

The sheriff’s office says they will provide updates as the story develops.