Girl, 3, suffers deep cut on face after attack by pet peacock in Serangoon
Posted on 02 December 2021 | 6,552 views | 27 comments
Jean Iau
The Straits Times
December 1, 2021 A three-year-old girl was badly cut on her face after she was attacked by a pet peacock in Serangoon on Sunday (Nov 28). The girl was on her way home from a playground at Haus Park, in Serangoon Garden, with her brother and father when she stopped outside a house to look at the peacock, her mother wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday. The peacock is then said to have charged out and attacked the girl.
Speaking to The Straits Times, the girl's father, Mr Joo Han, who is in his early 40s, said: "I saw the peacock take two initial steps, wanting to charge towards her, so I rushed towards my daughter and tried to carry her.
"I scraped my left knee and elbow on the pavement while holding my girl and shielding her, and hitting the peacock with my right arm. It charged towards us a few times."
The owner of the peacock came out of the house soon after and pulled the bird back by its tail, added Mr Han, who is not working.
"I was shocked because we often see peacocks walking around in the zoo or Sentosa so I had no idea it could be this aggressive," he said.
The girl's mother, Madam Kris Chan, 44, wrote on Facebook that her daughter had to be put under general anaesthesia for the wound to be stitched up.
The housewife also posted four pictures of the cut on her daughter's face as well as her blood-stained clothes.
Mr Han said his daughter, who still has the stitches on her face, is recovering well.
The Straits Times
December 1, 2021 A three-year-old girl was badly cut on her face after she was attacked by a pet peacock in Serangoon on Sunday (Nov 28). The girl was on her way home from a playground at Haus Park, in Serangoon Garden, with her brother and father when she stopped outside a house to look at the peacock, her mother wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
The girl had to be put under general anaesthesia for the wound to be stitched up. PHOTO: KRIS CHAN/FACEBOOK
Source:
The Straits Times
Get a copy of The Straits Times or go to straitstimes.com for more stories.