OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. — In December 2022, an off-duty Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office officer saved a Crestview mother and child from a dog attack. For this, he was given the “Life Saving Award.”
The report says that Deputy Trevor Valentine was in his garden at home on the day after Christmas when he heard a woman calling for help.
Valentine got in his truck and drove around until he was close to where he heard the screams. Valentine went to the backyard of the house and saw a woman “in the fetal position being attacked by two large dogs.”
The report says that “Deputy Valentine took action right away to get the dogs away from the victim.” “In the end, he was able to put both dogs in a fenced-in back porch to stop any more attacks.”
The woman’s 2-year-old daughter, who had also been attacked by the dogs, was under her. The girl’s daughter had head and face wounds. Valentine put pressure on the wounds with his shirt and told his wife to call 911.
The girl got a cut on the back of her neck where the needle went in. It pierced her brain, caused compression fractures in her skull, and cut her head and left eyelid several times.
According to the report, the cuts needed “many stitches to reattach parts of her scalp and eyelids.”
The mother had holes poked in her left hand, right arm, and right eyelid. Some of them needed to be sewn.
The post says that the mother went to the house to feed and let out her friend’s dogs. After that, the dogs went after the girl.
In January, the mother told officers that she thinks “Deputy Trevor Valentine’s intervention saved my daughter’s life.”
