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A six-year-old girl remains in critical condition after a dog attacked her and bit her face on Saturday. Lily Norton underwent a 12-hour surgery leaving her with over 1,000 stitches from

below her eyes to her chin and two additional procedures pending, a GoFundMe campaign created on her behalf explains. "Her salivary glands aren't working … and doctors said she

won't be able to smile again," CJ Pitcher, who helped create the fundraiser, told _The Sun Journal_. "Muscles are too damaged." She will stay at Boston Children's

Hospital's intensive care unit for at least ten days, where her mom Dorothy Norton tells News Center Maine she remains sedated because she has a breathing tube in. "But other than

that, she's really good. She looks really good," she added while explaining to the outlet that the attack occurred when Lily was at a friend's house. "They were going to

play cards at the table, so she sat down at the table, the friend went and got the cards, and then as soon as the friend walked back in the room, she screamed to her mom because the dog had

Lily in her mouth," she said. "And she doesn't hate all dogs, at least; that's what she told me. She just doesn't want to see that one again," she continued.

The dog was reportedly a pit bull type which the mother of Lily's friend was pet sitting. "The Norton family is from a small town called Chesterville, Maine," the

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NEWS TO COMPELLING HUMAN INTEREST STORIES._ "They will be enduring a lot of traveling in the future years to come from Maine to Boston for their daughter's care. We are asking for

any and all help we can get for this family and help them ease some of the expenses that this terrible tragedy put them in." The campaign has currently obtained over $24,250 in

donations. Officer Dexter "Buzz" Bridges, the animal control officer for the town of Chesterville, tells _The Sun Journal_ that the attack remains under investigation. A

representative for the Farmington Police Department did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.