A 75-year-old woman, Rebecca Westergaard, was found dead on her porch on Christmas Day. Authorities have determined that she died from injuries caused by at least one pot-bellied pig. Dr. Jeff Lee, deputy coroner, stated that Westergaard had been alive and walking before the pigs attacked, resulting in fatal blood loss.
definitively says the death of a woman, found on her front porch on Christmas Day, was caused by at least one pig mauling her, leading to injuries to her legs, which caused her to bleed to death.Dr. Jeff Lee, deputy coroner, said the pigs “definitely” caused the death of Rebecca Westergaard, 75, who was found on her porch after concerned relatives called police when she didn’t show up for a family gathering in Akron.“She was alive, up and walking around,” he said.
Lee said the pigs were pot-bellied pigs, believed to have been kept as pets by a neighbor. He said the pigs had a history of getting out of the neighbor’s yard. An agriculture educator from the Ohio State University Extension Agency in Fayette County said it’s not like pigs to attack a person.But Ford called pigs “inquisitive” and said pigs who are regularly around humans are expecting food from them.
“Their reaction to humans are that humans feed them and so when somebody when a pig would see human there, they're associating that with more than likely food,” he said.
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