Arizona boy speaks out after losing ear in dog attack

ARIZONA CITY, AZ - An Arizona boy is speaking out after being mauled by three dogs, and his family is letting us in on something new about the dogs' owner.

Ten-year-old Jason Hamilton says he remembers the January day when he almost lost his life. He says the three dogs started jumping on him and biting him all over his body.

"Pitbull got my ear," said Hamilton. "And the two Rottweilers got my legs and my arm."

The boy remembers calling desperately for help.

It eventually took four men with baseball bats to stop the dogs.

Hamilton spent four days in the hospital.

His bandages cover what is now missing as a result of the attack.

"I lost my whole ear," he said.

Hamilton's step-father, Jerry Prisco, said the pack of dogs nearly "ripped half his face off."

"He had puncture wounds on his shoulder and his legs gashed open about the size of my fist," Prisco recalls. "The dogs were trying to eat him."

And now, week's later, the family tells ABC 15 some disturbing details about the owner of those three vicious dogs.

Prisco says if the dogs were being fed they wouldn't have attacked his son like they did.

ABC15 has learned the dog's owner, Leticia Flores is a kennel worker for the City of Casa Grande's Animal Care and Control.

Flores is reportedly facing 12 civil violations for having three vicious dogs escape, not licensing her dog, not providing any water or shelter and keeping the animals in a yard with excess feces.

"Animal control, that's what they go out and do," said Prisco. "They go out and make sure people are feeding their dogs, not neglecting them and make sure they have licenses and stuff. So if that's their rules, why aren't their employees having to adhere to the same rules?"

Pinal County spokesperson Heather Murphy declined our request for an on-camera or phone interview, but says the county isn't covering up for the city worker.

She says the dog's owner apologized and surrendered the animals to be euthanized, but the boy's family says that's not enough.

"He's going to have to go through this the rest of his life," said Prisco.

The boy will have to undergo several skin graft surgeries and says he now has a fear of playing in his own neighborhood.

"I feel unsafe because I feel like the dogs are still there," said Hamilton.

ABC 15 tried to contact the dogs' owner, but no one answered at the home.

We also reached out to the Pinal County prosecutor's office to find out why no criminal charges have been filed, so far no response.