It happened Saturday near his home at the Sunrise Village Mobile Home Park.
The boy's mother, Katie Young, described the terrifying attack saying one of the dogs grabbed him completely by the head and dragged him.
The boy was walking down the street from his house, according to Young, and that’s when the dogs somehow got out of a neighbor's house.
“They bit his face up, his ear, the back of his head, his neck, his arms, stomach,” Young said.
A neighbor was able to get the dogs off the boy.
The pit bulls were seized by animal control officers.
“He’s going to have to get stitches in his head and his ears and his face and in his arms,” Young said.
Young said what happened to her son was heartbreaking.
But what she said is more heartbreaking is how her son is dealing with the attack.
“He said he doesn’t want to go back outside and play no more,” said Young. “It’s a bad situation all around for a mother to go through this with her son. It’s a bad situation.”
News 13 checked with Cocoa police to see if the dogs' owners would be charged with any wrongdoing, but we have not heard back.
(News 13 - Sept 30, 2012)
