An 8-year-old Gainesville girl who was seriously hurt in a pit bull attack is in a hospital and expected to survive.

On Saturday, Lyndon Bartlett was just a few feet away from her house on Walter Road when out of nowhere a pit bull mix came from behind and attacked her.

"All of the sudden it just jumped up on her and started to just ripping her, I just started backing away slowly and I didn't know what to do", according to a friend of Lyndon who was playing with her.

The dog bit Lyndon on her behind and back.

"I heard the scream and at first it didn't click that it was my daughter, like everyone else you never think it’s your kid", said Kelly Bartlett, Lyndon's father.

A neighbor who witnessed the attack said the dog, "Literally just started rag-dolling her".

Neighbors who saw it happen say her screams sounded like something out of a horror movie.

Neighbor Jason Bonn ran to help the girl.

"I grabbed her up and was trying to figure out where her mom and dad was and ran her to her house and beat her door open and told them that she had just been attacked by a pit bull.”

She was taken to Denton Regional Hospital, and is recovering.

She is expected to survive.

Neighbors said dog had somehow escaped the owner's property.

No arrests have been made but the girl’s father says he plans to file charges on the dog owner.

The animal is quarantined at the Refinery Road Vet Clinic and will most likely will be put down.

Police say they are continuing to investigate.

“It’s the mental trauma that I'm afraid is going to take the longest for her to get over,” the girl’s father said.