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Gator bites off Louisiana girl's finger

Associated Press — Aug. 4, 2005

Thursday, August 4, 2005

VENICE, La. — An alligator bit a 12-year-old girl while she played with cousins in a forbidden pond near her home in Plaquemines Parish, her family says. Ashley Brown of Venice is "up and walking around," recuperating from surgery on her hand, said her mother, Loretta Brown. She lost the tip of one middle finger, bitten off as she tried to push the alligator away from the thigh where it bit her, and doctors grafted skin from the side of her hand to the injured finger, Brown said from her ...

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