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This makes me sick. How do you sleep while your baby inches away from you is mauled by your dog.

NEW PORT RICHEY — She knocked on the door. It was noon Wednesday and Jackie Frishe wanted to check on her friend Nicole Koezeno, a new mom at age 16. Thomas James Carter Jr. was 7 days old — chubby and pink with a head of thick, black hair.

“Jackie, is that you?” Koezeno said. She sounded sleepy.

“Hold on.”

Koezeno unlocked the door.

Frishe, 19, stepped inside and heard her friend scream. The baby was dead on the bed. Sometime while Koezeno slept with her newborn, her 45-pound pit bull mix named Sidon mauled Thomas. Authorities said the infant had more than 50 puncture wounds on his tiny body.

Frishe said the bed was covered in blood. She said she and Koezeno tried to resuscitate Thomas.

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