GoFundMe raises $129K for SC woman who lost arms to dog attack last week. How to give
A GoFundMe account had raised more than $129,000 as of Wednesday afternoon for a Honea Path woman who needed her arms amputated after a dog attack last week.
The GoFundMe for Kyleen Waltman, 39, shows that the account had received approximately 2,300 donations since it was started a day or two after the incident on March 21. The GoFundMe was created by Waltman’s sister, Amy Wynne.
Waltman was walking along Ball Road in Honea Path when three dogs attacked her. A passerby managed to fend off the dogs by shooting at them with a pistol he carries for protection. Waltman suffered bite wounds all over her body and needed both of her arms and colon removed afterward.
The dogs’s owner, Justin Minor of Honda Path, was arrested on March 23 and charged with three counts of owning a dangerous animal that attacked and injured a human, rabies control violation and dangerous animal not permitted beyond premises unless restrained. All are misdemeanors.
Minor is currently out on a $15,000 bond.
The three dogs, two pit bulls and a mixed breed, were seized by Abbeville Animal Control.
Waltman is still in a hospital on a ventilator and has been sedated since the attack, according to a recent post Wynne made about her sister.
“The doctor told us that they are watching her left leg because it has a lot of dead tissue, it was worse than they originally thought,” Wynne wrote. “We are praying they don’t have to amputate it.”
Wynne added that her family recently learned Waltman also had a spinal injury and doctors have kept her sedated to prevent her from moving and aggravating it.
“She still doesn’t know what happened,” Wynne wrote.
To donate, visit GoFundMe.
This story was originally published March 29, 2022 at 10:16 AM.
