Pit bull fatally mauls 4-year-old girl in the San Joaquin Valley

A 4-year-old girl was fatally mauled this week by a dog in Visalia, authorities said.

Officers responded shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday to a home in the 2300 block of West Monte Vista Avenue in the San Joaquin Valley city midway between Bakersfield and Fresno, authorities wrote in a statement on Facebook.

The child had finished swimming and was inside the home when the pit bull attacked,…