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This weekend my 10 year old daughter was walking my 10 month old Rottie down a street next to mine when she noticed a white puff ball (Bichon) running after her and the dog, it caught up and bit the ankle of my dog, my dog turned around and grabbed that little dog by the tail and swung around a few times dropped it and went after a bird.
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It is quite obvious at 10 months and based on your pups behavior that she is not a well trained dog with excellent leash manners. Therefore your 10 yo daughter should not be walking her unless in your presence. I walk my dogs on a slack leash in one hand on a martingale collar but there are very few persons beside my husband that I would entrust with the responsibilty of walking my dogs. One reason is most people don't have the ability to really read my dogs and redirect them before they react and I wouldn't expect a 10 yo to have this ability either, let alone the judgement skills to react appropriately after the fact. Heck, I've made mistakes before in handling my dogs and I have more years experience than your daughters 10 years of age!
I completely understand your frustration as far as the dog being at large. I experience this a lot here or dogs on 25' foot fully extended leashes that IMO are basically 'at large'. I think both owners are at fault, but since the damage was not excessive, please use this as a learning experience.
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Had your daughter been in the middle of a dog fight, that might have turned out disasterously!
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No doubt! I'm glad that wasn't the case this time.