A 3-year-old Louisiana girl may never smile again after being mauled in a vicious dog attack. The foster dog ate the little girl’s face during the attack.

On March 16, Emily Roark was attacked by a foster dog that her family had brought into their home in less than 24 hours before the horrific attack. The girl’s mother said the dog and the girl were “very sweet together,” according to the Daily Mail. The dog, named Tater Tot, even let Emily give it kisses on the snout.

Rebekka Bolline, Emily’s mother, said, “They had a good relationship. The dog let her kiss her face, on the snout, let her pet her and everything.”

“The little bit of time that they were around each other, they were very sweet with each other,” Bolline said. “Emily came downstairs and she was petting the dog from the back of the neck to his back, very, very softly.”

Bolline recalled, “In a matter of seconds, it barked and latched on her face and then started shaking her side to side, while I’m screaming, ‘Get off my baby! Get off my baby!'”

“When the dog bit and latched onto her, she didn’t make a sound,” the mother explained. “Her body went limp and she was being thrown all over the place.”

“At that moment, I just thought that she wasn’t going to make it and that she was going to die,” Bolline said. “I didn’t know how to help her. I couldn’t get the dog off her. I kept screaming. I don’t remember how I got the dog off – I blocked it out.”

The mother reportedly said the dog eventually released Emily from its jaws, but not before the animal had “ingested” some of the toddler’s flesh from her face.

“Her cheek was chewed up very badly,” Bolline added. “The dog ingested some of her face.”

Emily was rushed from her house in Slidell to a local hospital and then transferred to the Children’s International Pediatrics Hospital in New Orleans.

Emily suffered muscle damage that may prevent her from ever smiling again. She also has wounds on her cheeks, lips, and inside her mouth. Emily will require multiple reconstruction surgeries.

Tater Tot was euthanized by animal control after the dog attack.

Bolline said the whole reason that they started fostering Tater Tot was because Emily desperately wanted a puppy.

The mother said Emily now has a “fear of animals.”

Bolline said, “Every once in a while, she’s in a lot of pain she’ll point to herself and say, ‘Mommy I die, mommy I die. Puppy was hungry,’ which is heartbreaking.”

A GoFundMe was launched to raise money to pay for medical treatment for the young girl.

“March 16th my 3-year-old daughter got attacked by a . We were fostering a dog and that morning as Emily was softly petting the dog it attacked her,” the profile on the crowdfunding website reads. “The doctors say she will not be able to smile or eat on one side of her face and her tear duct may have been damaged as well. We were discharged yesterday but will need multiple reconstruction surgery. Anything helps, God bless.”

Bolline said, “I will never trust a dog ever again. It snapped for no reason.”

In February, a 6-year-old girl was mauled during a dog attack, The brutal assault in Maine forced the little girl to undergo a 12-hour emergency surgery and require more than 1,000 stitches.

A family friend said of the girl, “Her salivary glands aren’t working … and doctors said she won’t be able to smile again. Muscles are too damaged.”

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Michael Che pulled off an April Fools’ Day prank on Colin Jost that his “Weekend Update” cohost won’t soon forget. During Saturday’s episode of “Saturday Night Live,” which was hosted by Quinta Brunson, Che and Jost anchored what appeared to be a standard “Weekend Update” full of jokes about the recent indictment of former President Donald Trump. But unfortunately for Jost, none of his jokes seemed to land.

The longtime “SNL” star made cracks about an inevitable Stormy Daniels movie and the former president’s lawyer, which were greeted with polite giggles. Then Che told a Trump-themed joke and the crowd went wild. When Che tossed the segment back to Jost, his cohost was starting to look nervous when someone in the audience shouted, “You stink!” Poor Jost buried his head in his hands as Che revealed that he’d told the audience not to laugh at his friend’s jokes.

“I told them not to laugh at you for April Fools’,” Che confessed. A relieved Jost shared just how panicked he was becoming. “I was like, ‘Am I not mic’d?'” he said, laughing. “And then I was like, ‘Oh, I just suck.'”

Che tried to continue on, but Jost was still reeling from his scare. “You’re evil,” he joked. When his cohost tossed the segment back to him again after the prank reveal, Jost couldn’t hold it together. “That’s the meanest thing you’ve ever done to me,” he said. “I’m covered in sweat.”

For his part, Che couldn’t help but laugh as the crowd tried to make his pal feel better with a big cheer. But Jost wasn’t having it. “Don’t you even dare try that now,” he told the audience.

Even if it did leave his cohost sweating, Che’s prank was ingenious – and it should inspire Jost to try to come up with something equally diabolical for Che in time for the show’s next April Fools’ Day episode.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders (R ) called for a new generation of Republican leadership in her response to President Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. 

“The dividing line in America is no longer between right or left,” Sanders said from the governor’s mansion in Little Rock. “The choice is between normal or crazy. It’s time for a new generation of Republican leadership.”

Sanders was a White House spokesperson for former President Trump, who is seeking another term as president. He is the only Republican candidate in the 2024 race at this time.

A number of Republicans have suggested it is time to turn the page on the Trump era, and the Sanders remark could be read as a shot at Trump.

But Sanders also went on to praise the former president, recalling traveling with him when he visited troops in Iraq during a Christmas in his administration. 

Sanders spent most of her address hitting Biden over his address, attacking him over inflation, the flow of migrants over the southern border, foreign policy, and cultural issues. 

“In the Radical Left’s America, Washington taxes you and lights your hard-earned money on fire,” Sanders said. “But you get crushed with high gas prices, empty grocery shelves, and our children are taught to hate one another on account of their race.”

Sanders took a personal tone during parts of the speech, particularly when she recounted her and her mothers’ own experiences battling cancer. 

“Faith propels us to charge boldly ahead,” she said. 

The governor is considered a new generation of leadership in the GOP herself, being the first woman to serve as Arkansas governor and the youngest governor in the nation. 

Republicans were quick to praise Sanders following her address, including Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who tweeted a photo of him watching the rebuttal. 

“The contrast between her speech and Biden’s couldn’t be more clear,” McCarthy tweeted. “Republicans offer a vision for a future built on freedom, not fear-mongering.”